Daily news update: Peter Feldman dies, ANC vs MKMVA, Cannon fathers 4 kids in a year

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Revered SA journalist Peter Feldman has passed away

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Peter Feldman. Picture: Screenshot (LinkedIn)

Well-known journalist and arts writer Peter Feldman has died.

ANC has no legal right to disband the MKMVA, says Niehaus

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The move on the ANC’s part to disband its armed military wing, the uMkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), was met with fierce opposition.

‘The worst is yet to come’: doctors warn of third wave that’ll decimate families

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A member of staff undergoes a PCR Covid test during the Pro-Am in Johannesburg. Picture: Getty Images

As hospitals and medical workers in Gauteng prepare to be swamped by Covid-19 cases, the third wave of infections is now affecting whole families, which it did not in the first and second waves.

WATCH: Durban engineer’s KITT tribute that has become a TV star

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Anban Pillay’s Pontiac Trans-Am tribute to Knight Rider’s KITT.

There is, somewhere in the past of every petrolhead, the car that got him (or her) hooked on four-wheeled machinery. For Anban Pillay, it was the menacing, all-black Pontiac Trans-Am which was the real star of the TV series Knight Rider.

How Nick Cannon fathered four children in one year

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Father’s Day was made for Nick Cannon who announced his fourth child this year, bringing his total up to seven children. | Picture: Twitter

Father’s Day was made for comedian Nick Cannon. This after model Alyssa Scott shared, in a recent Instagram story, that she is expecting a baby boy with the American media personality.

OPINION: Kaizer Chiefs (and Samir) benefit as VAR plays it again

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The match officials lead out the Kaizer Chiefs and Wydad Casablanca on Saturday. In the end, they were given a big helping hand by VAR. Picture: BackpagePix

‘Play it again, Sam,’ or so goes the popular quote from the seminal movie Casablanca, even if those exact words are not actually said in the Humphrey Bogart classic.

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