THE THIRD UMPIRE

ERIC WOOD

The Transnet Pension Fund has obtained a court order provisionally sequestrating the high-profile fund manager, a senior executive at Regiments Capital and Trillian Capital who is alleged to have helped the Gupta brothers capture Transnet and Eskom.

TAURIQ JENKINS

The Supreme Court of Appeal has reversed a high court ruling that halted the construction of a new African headquarters for Amazon in Cape Town, saying Jenkins fraudulently misrepresented indigenous groups as opposed to the development.

SERGEI SHOIGU

The Russian defence minister has ordered his forces to withdraw from Kherson, the only regional capital captured during Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine. That’s not going to make him popular with an increasingly beleaguered president Vladimir Putin.