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* Parliament's Ad hoc committee investigating allegations of criminality within the SAPS has written to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Thoko Didiza, asking for another extension. The committee, established more than a year ago, is now in the process of compiling its draft preliminary report. Its latest deadline is tomorrow. If the request for an extension is acceded to, it would be the sixth time the request is granted.
* The national commissioner of correctional services Makgothi Thobakgale has confirmed Edward Madiba's re-arrest during a press briefing at the Kgosi Mampuru Correctional Centre. Madiba was apprehended within 72 hours, a standing order in the Department of Correctional Services that when they have an escape.
* The Springboks will do the All Blacks no favours and are aiming to wrap Rugby's Greatest Rivalry 3-1 in Baltimore on Saturday.
South Africa's most capped player, lock Eben Etzebeth believes that experience of bouncing back from adversity has played a key role in their response after losing the opening test against the All Blacks. Both matches in Cape Town and Soweto then delivered the desired results for the world champions and they are on the cusp of sealing the series 3-1 if they can get a victory in Baltimore.
* The Football Transformation Forum are going into Saturday's SAFA Elective Congress with a lot of confidence.
They say their candidate, incumbent Danny Jordaan, enjoys the support of most of SAFA's 52 regions.
The FTF is a lobby group that was established in 2008 and paved the way for Jordaan to be elected SAFA president for the first time back in 2013.
* When hijacked planes brought down the World Trade Center's twin towers in September 2001, roughly 25-thousand children were living or attending school nearby in lower Manhattan — and thousands more were in surrounding neighborhoods. Even though they were exposed to the massive toxic cloud and settling dust containing pulverized concrete, glass fibers, asbestos and other pollutants in the days and weeks after the towers fell. Very few of these children were enrolled in the government-funded follow-up health studies of survivors.
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