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Father and son arrested
JOHANNESBURG - Two more people - a father and his son - were arrested in connection with a scam involving unauthorised R99 debit orders that caused bank clients to collectively lose R18 million, the Hawks said yesterday. Ravenda Singh, 50, and his son Andrew, 26, Directors of Durban-based call centre Sub User, were arrested in Johannesburg last week Wednesday. Gauteng Hawks Spokesperson Captain Ndivhuwo Mulamu said they were charged with fraud and appeared in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on the same day. They were each released on R30 000 bail.
Campus students evicted
POLOKWANE - Approximately one hundred students at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Polokwane Campus in Limpopo were evicted from their residences over the weekend. The students, who are beneficiaries of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) say that the lodge they had been staying at, since the beginning of the year, evicted them on Friday because their lease had lapsed. The students say they did not feel safe sleeping outside the university gate on Sunday night. They claim the university was refusing to licence the lodge and renew the lease.
Eleven fishermen missing
GHANA - Ghana authorities said on Monday they had rescued 15 people from a sinking trawler off the country’s coast, while at least 11 others were still missing, including a Chinese national. The Ghana-owned but Chinese-operated ship known as MV Comforter II, sank on Friday during a storm south of Ghana’s second port city Takoradi, 220 kilometres (135 miles) from the capital Accra.
NEW YORK - Elon Musk said Twitter had a ‘strong left wing bias’ in response to a tweet from a reporter who called for violence against pro-lifers. Musk’s comments on Monday were in reply to a tweet from Mike Cernovich, who is a conspiracy theorist known for his propagation of the baseless Pizzagate theory that high ranking democrats were running a pedophilic sex-trafficking ring out of a D.C. pizza shop.
Cernovich tagged Musk in a tweet accusing the platform of allowing verified accounts to incite violence in the name of liberal causes on Sunday evening.
‘‘Here you go @elonmusk, when Twitter employees invariably lie to you about enforcement policy, maybe they can explain why a verified account is allowed to incite terrorism without any care in the world about being banned.’’
In the post, Cernovich retweeted Rewire News Group reporter Caroline Reilly, who encouraged violence against anti-abortionists in a tweet following news of a burning and attempted bombing at a pro-life group’s office.