THE THIRD UMPIRE

TRYPHOSA RAMANO

Eskom just can’t catch a break: hardly had its new board been announced than a forensic investigation into media leaks during merger & acquisition talks at cement producer PPC fingered one of them as the culprit when she was CFO there.

RON DESANTIS

Florida’s governor is the big winner from the US midterm elections, his re-election putting him ahead of Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination after almost all the candidates Trump endorsed underperformed badly.

ENGLAND

England has become the first cricketing nation to hold both the men’s T20 and 50-over world cup trophies simultaneously after the team beat Pakistan by five wickets to take the 2022 T20 World Cup final in Melbourne at the weekend.