Today was hectic.
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A loser doesn’t know what he’ll do if he loses, but talks about what he’ll do if he wins, and a winner doesn’t talk about what he’ll do if he wins, but knows what he’ll do if he loses.– Eric Berne
Your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body.
1880. The Salvation Army is formed in the US. The social service organisation was first launched in England and operates in 90 countries, including South Africa.
1896. After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs the much larger Jim Corbett to win the world heavyweight championship in Carson City, Nevada, he laconically mutters the memorable line first coined by fellow boxer Joe Walcott: “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
1922. Striking white workers storm and occupy police stations, railway installations and mines on the Rand. Within four days the revolt is crushed, but 153 die and 534 are injured.
1970. With a team packed with the likes of Mike Proctor, Barry Richards, Eddie Barlow, the Pollock brothers, John Traicos and Lee Irvine, South Africa give the visiting Australia cricket team a 4–0 series drubbing.
1978. Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper The World, is released from detention with nine other black leaders who were seized in October 1976.
2010. Mexican Carlos Slim becomes the first person from an emerging economy to top the Forbes Richest Person list with a net worth of $53.5 billion. Currently, the richest of 2 755 billionaires – who are worth $13.8 trillion – is Elon Musk (worth $223 bn). The top 10 richest people – who have had a terrific pandemic, with the 10 richest doubling their worth – earn more than 3.1 bn people of the world’s population. Africa has 22 dollar billionaires, with seven – Johann Rupert, Nicky Oppenheimer, Koos Bekker, Patrice Motsepe, Michiel le Roux, Jannie Mouton and Christo Wiese – in Mzansi.
2022. The true global death toll from Covid-19 is 18.2 million, says Washington University.
2023. Gary Lineker, the BBC’s highest-paid presenter, is suspended for tweeting that the UK government’s immigration policy is an “immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s.”
2024. A pig liver is transplanted into a clinically dead person and kept functioning for 10 days in a milestone test at a Chinese hospital.
2025. A collision in the North Sea off England between a cargo ship and a tanker carrying jet fuel sparks a fire and kills one person.
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