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• The definitive report on state capture by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has been issued to President Ramaphosa
• REPEALED: No more masks inside allowed in South Africa
• Kaizer Chiefs’ pre-season training begins at Naturena

From Zuma to Fraser to Cyril, Zondo spares no one – Times Live (for subscribers)

Thuli Dlamini reports that it took four years, more than 300 witnesses, 8 million pages of documents, and R1 billion in taxpayer money to show how bad the state capture was when former president Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family were in charge.

“Zondo found Zuma’s fingers in many pies, including the 2013 irregular landing of the Gupta aircraft at Waterkloof military airforce base and the formation and running of the Gupta media house TNA Media and news channel ANN7, leading the chief justice to conclude that Zuma had breached the executive ethics code.”

President Cyril Ramaphosa now has three months to study the report and then it will be debated in parliament. Read more here

No more masks or restrictions on gatherings, signs Health Minister Phaahla – EWN

As of today, South African residents are no longer compelled to wear a mask inside. On Wednesday, the Minister of Health, Joe Phaahla signed a repeal that eliminates the need to wear masks inside and removed restrictions on gatherings.

BREAKING NEWS: Health Minister Joe Phaahla has ended the mandatory use of #masks indoors as well as removed restrictions on #gatherings. This comes as the country experiences low #COVID19 infections and related deaths. @NkoRaphael pic.twitter.com/4NoPIVe77G

— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) June 22, 2022

“Up until Wednesday, people were required to use a face mask in any public indoor space or when using public transport.” Read more here

Gallery: New Faces Start Chiefs Training, Jersey Numbers Revealed? – Soccer Laduma

Kaizer Chiefs players are back at Naturena to start the preseason, and the club’s new players have joined the training. 

“Chiefs have been busy releasing and acquiring the services of players, in an effort to get the team ready for battle in the upcoming season.” Read more here

Here are the top trending stories of the day. 

Headline: Now that Cyril has the Zondo report: where to from here? – Times Live (for subscribers)

Headline: EMS officials eliminate any doubt in the search for Khaya Magadla – EWN

Headline: Stellenbosch urination victim walks out of hearing claiming panel isn’t objective, says lawyer – Times Live

Headline: Justin Timberlake Issues a Much-Needed Apology for His Khakis in That Viral Dance Video – Billboard

Headline: Eight medical staff to be tried for Maradona death – News24

Weather: Thursday’s weather: Another bout of rain and flooding expected in Cape Town – News24

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After releasing a few photographs from her British Vogue photoshoot, Beyoncé added “6. BREAK MY SOUL midnight ET” to her social media biographies on Monday morning to announce the release of her latest song.

The internet has gone into a frenzy ever since the new single dropped.

Beyoncé’s new single “Break My Soul,” is the first taste we’ve had of her upcoming album Renaissance.

British Vogue editor-in-chief describes the Renaissance as such: “Music that makes you rise, that turns your mind to cultures and subcultures, to our people past and present, music that will unite so many on the dance floor, music that touches your soul.”

Brande Victorian thinks the date of the pop singer’s new single is noteworthy. The Essence journalist pens that Beyoncé has previously released “Black Parade” on Juneteenth, a significant day in black history.

Some BeyHive fans on Twitter have said that “Break My Soul” is the “perfect gay anthem”.

Beyoncé gave us an anti-capitalist, pro-gay summer anthem with vocals, rapping, a choir call and response, and FREEDIA. We really won #BreakMySoul pic.twitter.com/PW65t6W4ZS

— ً (@neuenegro) June 21, 2022

The full album drops on July, 29. In the meantime, you can listen to the official lyric video here:

Here’s a roundup of interesting opinions, analyses, and reviews of “Break My Soul”:

Beyoncé Releases ‘Break My Soul’ Single Early: Stream It Now – Billboard

Beyoncé, Drake and the revival of 90s house music – BBC

Beyoncé’s New Single Has Arrived – Essence

Beyonce ‘Break My Soul’ Fan Review: Singer’s new song gets dubbed as ‘pro-gay summer anthem’ – Meaww

Beyoncé drops first single from new album, ‘Break My Soul’ – Times Live

‘Break My Soul’ Becomes the First Piece of Art from the Beyaissance – Vulture

Beyonce preaches freedom, strength and living life on your own terms on “Break My Soul” – Shifter Magazine

April 28 (Reuters) – Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 28:

1923 – First-ever Wembley FA Cup Final.

1936 – King Faud I of Egypt died and was succeeded by his son, Farouk I.

1945 – The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was executed by partisans near Lake Como, one day after being caught.

1994 – The former CIA officer Aldrich Ames and his wife Rosario pleaded guilty to spying for Moscow. He was sentenced to life in prison, his wife to five years.

1996 – Lone gunman Martin Bryant shoots 35 people dead at popular tourist spot Port Arthur in southern Australia.

2001 – The world’s first space tourist, American Dennis Tito, blasted off on a $20-million joy ride to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket.

2002 – Alexander Lebed, governor of the Russian province of Krasnoyarsk, died in a helicopter crash. Lebed, a tough-talking general who played a part in foiling the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, also ran for president against Boris Yeltsin in 1996.

2002 – Ruth Handler, the inventor of “Barbie,” the doll for little girls that became one of the world’s most popular toys, died aged 85.

2004 – Mosque attack in southern Thailand, in which police and troops shoot dead over 100 gun and machete-wielding Muslim/ separatists.

2013 – Two police officers shot outside Italian prime minister’s office in Rome as Enrico Letta’s new government is sworn in at president’s palace.

2015 – Wimbledon announces record prize money in millions of dollars.

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April 11 (Reuters) – Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 11:

1951 – President Harry S Truman stripped General Douglas MacArthur of all his posts including that of U.N. Forces Commander in Korea for making critical political statements.

1957 – Singapore was granted self-government by Britain.

2000 – South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje admitted taking money from an Indian bookmaker.

2001 – The Welsh comedian and singer Harry Secombe died.

2002 – A truck bomb near the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba killed 21 people including 14 Germans.

2003 – U.S. and Kurdish forces took Iraq’s third city of Mosul without a fight, sealing victory in the north.

2004 – Pope John Paul II made an unexpected appeal for Christian unity as the Western (Roman Catholic) and Eastern (Orthodox) churches unusually celebrated Easter on the same day.

2006 – Bernardo Provenzano, the undisputed head of the Sicilian Mafia who had been on the run for more than four decades, was arrested in Sicily.

2007 – Suicide car bombing in Algiers kills at least 17 people.

2009 – Rene Monory, a self-made man proud of his climb from a first job as a rural garage owner to that of government minister and then president of the French Senate, died.

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