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July 7, 2020

Tuesday Morning Spice

Ghislaine Maxwell's 'secret Epstein tapes'. Afrikaans Satanic Bible. Gauteng hard lockdown fears eased. Harry and Will split Diana fund. Kanye's massive gov loan. Miley parties.

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Ghislaine Maxwell Moved To Federal Jail In Brooklyn – She has been transferred to a federal detention centre in Brooklyn ahead of an arraignment and bail hearing that may come next week. [washpost]

Ghislaine Maxwell ‘Has Secret Stash Of Paedophile Jeffery Epstein’s Sex Tapes’ -Now, one of Maxwell’s closest former friends has claimed that the socialite has copies of all of his sex tapes and will use the footage as an insurance policy to save herself. [nzherald]

Former Cryptocurrency Agency Chief Declared Bankrupt As Investors Wait For Millions – Around 2 000 investors in Willie Breedt’s defunct company, VaultAge Solutions, stand to lose around R227 million. [news24]

Afrikaans Satanic Bible To Be Released ‘Early 2021’: Founding Duo On Past And Future – “We are very excited for it because the Afrikaans community as a cultural group is the route of the satanic panic in this country,” says Riaan Swiegelaar. [timeslive]

Coronavirus: Fear Over Rise In Animal-To-Human Diseases – Zoonotic diseases – which jump from animals to humans – are increasing and will continue to do so without action to protect wildlife and preserve the environment, UN experts have warned. [bbc]

Gauteng Government Says It Won’t Push For A Hard Lockdown – Here’s What It Plans Instead – This comes after Gauteng Health MEC Dr Bandile Masuku last week said that the province would look at a possible “intermittent” lockdown. [bustech]

Surge In COVID-19 Cases Sees SA Breach 200 000 Mark – Just under 9,000 new cases were reported over the past 24-hour cycle, bringing the total number of known infections to 205,721. [ewn]

How The Rising Age Of Retirement Could Impact Your ‘Golden Years’ – Life expectancy is on the rise, and with it, the age of retirement. The issue that arises is that not everyone can work, healthily, past their 60s. [here]

Hong Kong Grants Police Sweeping New Powers Under National Security Law – The government asserted broad new police powers, including warrantless searches, online surveillance and property seizures. [time]

The Epic Siberian Journey To Solve A Mass Extinction Mystery – A quarter-billion years ago, huge volcanic eruptions burned coal, leading to the worst extinction in Earth’s history. Here’s how scientists hunted down the evidence. [wired]

Fox News Says It ‘Mistakenly’ Cropped Trump Out Of Photo Featuring Epstein And Ghislaine Maxwell – Trump’s allies have played up ties between former Bill Clinton and Epstein sometimes by sharing old photos in which both of them appear. [cnn]

Armed Man Who Broke Into Trudeau Residence Charged With Threatening To Kill Or Injure PM – A military reservist who allegedly rammed his truck through a gate on the grounds where Justin Trudeau lives has been charged. [guardian]

Missing? Or Non-Existent? Report On KZN Education Department’s ‘Exorbitant PPE Spend’ Fails To Materialise – The KZN government has failed to come clean on the reported maximum prices it paid for PPE before the reopening of schools. [dailymav]

Two Superb Winter Wine Specials With Free Nationwide Delivery – You’ll have to give the Franschhoek Bastille Festival a miss this year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t drink some damn good wine. [here]

Quinton De Kock Admits Test Captaincy Would’ve Been ‘Too Much To Handle’ – After winning big at this year’s CSA Awards over the weekend, De Kock told reporters he had an informal meeting with Boucher on his Test role. [sport24]

Prince William And Harry Split Diana Memorial Fund In Official Settlement For New Working Lives – A signed agreement rules the brothers will divide the Diana Fund money between their now independent charitable interests. [telegraph]

Billionaire Kanye West’s Company Gets Multimillion-Dollar PPP Loan From Trump Admin – The loan poses questions of conflict of interest, given West’s outspoken support for President Donald Trump and the outrageously lavish lifestyle he leads. [dailybeast]

Miley Cyrus Stuns In A Tiny Bikini As She Shows Off Her Dance Moves With Beau Cody Simpson – ‘If we can’t get back to work…. let’s get back to WERK’. [dmail]

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