Say no to xenophobia....hope athletes will not be xenophobed or accused of taking their jabs and told to go bek home
RandDigital: Durban is South Africa's preferred candidate to host the first Olympics in Africa.
South Africa is bidding to host the 2036 or 2040 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
The country's choice to put forward Durban, South Africa's third biggest city, was announced by South African Olympic committee acting president Lwandile Simelane on Thursday. She said Durban would be the main candidate city for South Africa's bid but that the proposal would include some events being held in other cities.
South Africa's economic hub of Johannesburg and Cape Town were also considered as the candidate city.
Durban, a city of around 4 million on the subtropical Indian Ocean coast, was touted as a possible Olympic host city more than a decade ago following South Africa's staging of the 2010 soccer World Cup, the first in Africa. But an official bid didn't materialize then, largely due to concerns over costs.
The city was stripped of hosting the 2022 Commonwealth Games because it couldn't make financial or other guarantees required for that event.
Officials said Thursday that they were not yet able to provide any estimates regarding how much it might cost South Africa to stage the Olympics. They said Durban's bid would be centered on the 56,000-seat Moses Mabhida Stadium, which was built for the 2010 World Cup.
South Africa🇿🇦 is among seven countries bidding for the 2036 Games. The others are India🇮🇳, Qatar🇶🇦, South Korea🇰🇷, Germany🇩🇪, Hungary🇭🇺 and Turkey🇹🇷.
The IOC gave Oct. 31 as the deadline for national Olympic committees to formally declare their interest in bidding for the 2036 Games.
Candidates have an opportunity to make virtual presentations to the IOC next month to start the official bidding process. A key date is in March, the IOC has said, when its board will approve a shortlist of candidates.
The International Olympic Committee will choose the host city for 2036 in mid-2029.
South Africa would be the first African host of the Summer Games since the modern Olympics was created in 1896. Africa's biggest economy previously failed with a bid to stage the 2004 Games in Cape Town, losing out to Athens in Greece.
The Youth Olympics open this weekend in Dakar, Senegal, marking the first Olympic sports event to be held in Africa.
Primary fault is from the korope driver while secondary fault is from the Toyota driver
muhmeen: The video, shared by user D3VID, shows a yellow korope bus pulling out abruptly as the private Toyota approaches near a bus stop, with a keke tricycle also colliding in the three-second chaos.
Opinions split sharply: some blame the commercial driver's reckless maneuver without checking traffic, while others say the Toyota should have braked sooner in the busy zone despite having right of way.
The debate highlights Nigeria's road safety woes, where speeding and poor habits fuel deadly accidents, prompting calls for defensive driving and better enforcement.
Nigerian man shares the moment his car collided with other vehicles, who is at fault here? 😳🙆♂️🏃 pic.twitter.com/CLHjbcmC2A
Primary fault is from the korope driver while secondary fault is fromthe Toyotadriver
Dalohad: That is a highway express, possibly interstate..
The shuttle bus agbero driver is at faulty. He is reckless and should be captured and given 24 lashes right there on the spot, and sent to prison for endangering people's lives.
The driver of the private vehicle should also learn to apply caution and anticipatory driving skills.
I driver interstate on a regular, when I drive, I don't have loud music blocking my ears and sense of reasoning. I anticipate every danger before they happen.
Petehegseth: At least they didn't kill 160 kids in any GCC country since you are uneducated to know who a terrorist is.
Iran can strike these GCC people very badly in thier homes and schools but the so called terrorists Iran didn't.
Na ur USA de kill children.. Iran de strike still life container but u de call them. Terrorists. You're very smart and that's why Nigeria is more developed than Singapore
Queen Arusha arrived at a cattle auction in Limpopo province and left with a 6.4 million rands ($385K) price tag, reportedly the highest ever paid for a female animal of any cattle breed in South Africa. She is an in-calf Ankole heifer from Ntaba Nyoni, the cattle operation owned by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The sale happened on 3 October at the Ntaba Nyoni & Friends auction at Phala Phala in Limpopo. Farmer’s Weekly reported that Queen Arusha, registered as NANK23 001 and offered as Lot 20, went to an anonymous buyer.
JP Smith, chief operating officer of auction company Veilingswinkel, told the farming publication that the sale set the national record. The auction turned over R22.5 million in total, which means one heifer accounted for more than 28% of every rand spent on the day.
The price rests on Queen Arusha’s genetics. Smith described her as a full sister to Optimus Prime, an Ankole bull with horns measuring 1.73 metres (68 inches).
Two straws of sexed semen from Optimus Prime sold for R250,000 each at the same auction, another reported South African record across cattle breeds. Queen Arusha’s buyer was paying for the chance to produce and sell calves, embryos and other genetic material from the same bloodline.
“The buyer is buying access to future genetic production,” Smith told Farmer’s Weekly.
The auction results show just how enormous the premium was. Four pregnant heifers fetched R7.48 million between them. Remove Queen Arusha and the remaining three averaged R360,000 each, making her nearly 18 times more expensive than her pen-mates.
That is pedigree doing some fairly violent arithmetic.
The wider sale included 19 embryos for R1.445 million and 37 semen straws for R1.235 million. Ten bulls brought in R2.75 million, with the most expensive selling for R650,000.
Ankole cattle entered South Africa through a complicated route. The Ankole Society of South Africa says disease restrictions prevented direct imports from Uganda, so embryos produced in Kenya were brought into the country instead. The breed was formally approved in South Africa in May 2019 after performance testing under the Animal Improvement Act.
Ntaba Nyoni says Ramaphosa first became interested in Ankole cattle during a 2004 visit to Uganda. The operation now lists Ankole, Bonsmara, Boran, Nguni and Wagyu among the breeds it farms.
The R6.4 million is an auction price paid to the cattle operation, not proof that the same amount landed in Ramaphosa’s personal account. Costs, commissions and tax still have to come out of the sale proceeds.
For Queen Arusha’s anonymous buyer, the expensive part is over. Turning one record-breaking heifer into R6.4 million worth of future genetics is the longer job.
UrVillageChief: Yes o, this was how you smart thinkers foresaw and claimed that the Dangote Refinery was never going to see the light of the day🤣🤣 Even though I don’t support this decision for cutting off the Ondo’s riverine communities (the real coastal region) to cut inland into Edo, have you listened to their reasons for this decision or you are just yapping without your oblongata as always? Firstly, they are doing this in order to make the road useful and accessible to more communities and people and also considering the financial implications, it’s cheaper. I just blame the so called Engineers (and Umahi esp) for not doing their due diligence right from start.
DEROX: We all know why SA is doing this and i cant blame them. They are right. You want chinese to leave lagos but you dont want to leave south africa make it make sense to me. Or is SA a no mans land too
Heffalump: If we are chasing Chinese nationals in Nigeria for doing petty trading, then we don't have moral justification to accuse South Africans of xenophobia for chasing out immigrants.
Mzansis animals of Africa......the boers and Afrikaans are the real South Africa attracting foreigner and foreign investment....not you xenophobic drunkards and looters
RandDigital: SA, giant of Africa, will block all of Waste/Worst Africa. You'll keep running to Isra-hell for the devils protection 🇿🇦🏆🏆🏆
Mattswaggz: Nigerians have so destroyed their home....made it some sort of hell and are now shamelessly celebrating being citizens of other countries....countries that would instantly link them to their ancestry once they do something wrong and even insult them racially.
The countries y'all are celebrating their citizenship didn't get where they are by luck....their ancestors/forefathers fought for it and put in the work...so if y'all like, don't do the needful..be there celebrating mediocrity ignorant of the fact that they'll always see y'all as less and would disown you without a second thought especially if you do something wrong.
IronGalaxy: The minute you mentioned "Afrophobia" and "xenophobia" you lost your argument, I honestly can't take you seriously.. because what's happening in SA it's neither.
IronGalaxy: Dont get me started what your useless country is synonymous with, let's not even go there
We are not proud of the terrorism and kidnappings going on and we always condemn it openly and wholesomely but reverse is the case in mzansi.....xenophobia and afrophobia is embeded in the constitution of mzansi hence why you see their government officials and citizens openly and brazenly supporting it.....can you see the difference
CaseSensitive: US will eventually withdraw from the Middle East completely, they're withdrawing from Europe (NATO) and focusing on the Western hemisphere (go and read the US National Security Strategy Nov 2025) that's why Venezuela was robbed - to secure oil supply for US. They are not entering any war against Houthis, Trump is leaving that to the Europeans who will be severely affected.
They also know that oil & gas supply to China will fall dramatically with Aramco incapable of production and Iran's dwindling supply due to blockade of Strait of Hormuz. That's part of US's ultimate goal - to starve China of energy supply.
US cannot win against the Houthis by the way. They've tried and failed and that was even when the Houthis were weaker, they're a lot stronger now.
FreeStuffsNG: That's the whole idea and both will be trapped.
Hezbollah and Hamas have not been defeated yet in just few months of war started by both US and its proxy, both US and its proxy in Palestine are fast depleting their weapons and soldiers.
It is increasingly clear in the horizon that there will be one day you wake up to the news of a homerun that recovers Palestine back from the Occupation forces from Europe.
It is already playing out in Saudi Arabia. It will stretch to Oman, Bahrain. UAE, Kuwait and Qatar are already playing a balancing act. Las las, everyman will answer his father's name. The days of the ruling Arab families in all those gulf countries may just be numbered. Iran chased out a monarchy and has not relented in ensuring same happens in the whole west Asia.
Dogalmighty17: The Houthis have created their own SAM. This changes everything. This shows that they aren't just a rag tag group but are an organisation with some serious capabilities. They have developed their own ballistic missiles as well and have occasionally targeted Israel with it.
What does this mean? This means that Saudi Arabia cannot bomb the Houthis recklessly anymore without expecting a Houthi response. Developing and fielding an active surface to air missile is a level of complexity that few nations have been able to achieve and yet the Houthis have done it. It is only a matter of time before the develop ballistic missiles with precise targeting abilities.
The Saudis don't have F-35 fighter jets so only Israel and the US can take on the Houthis presently and Israel really doesn't want that smoke now and the US secretly sent officials to meet with Houthi leadership last night. So the US too isn't that keen on attacking the Houthis. Besides the last time the US bombed them, it did little to change the situation until the US got bored and left.
Stop jonzing. North Korea and China behind the scene
Lithiumite: He definitely hasn't met obi,he would want to slap him because thats his stock in trade,show up late to an event so the focus will be on him.
Too much sycophancy turns to madness....is obi a governor presently
Sports › Re: South Africa Formally Declares Interest To Bid For 2036 Olympic Games by Mrtaye: 6:04pm On Oct 30
make it make sense to me. Or is SA a no mans land too