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Bulls captain Player of the Year for 2020. It s the second time the burly Springbok No 8 has won this prestigious award in his career. Vermeulen, who led the Bulls to the Super Rugby Unlocked and Currie Cup titles, was also named Super Rugby and Super Rugby Unlocked Player of the Year. ???? Ladies and gentlemen, your SA Rugby Player of the Year for 2020 is the one and only Duane Vermeulen, for the second time during his stellar career! #SARugbyAwardspic.twitter.com/31N7KmknFO Springboks (@Springboks) March 4, 2021 Not surprisingly, the awards were dominated by champion team from Pretoria. Jake White was named Coach the Year, while centre/wing Cornal Hendricks scooped the Currie Cup Player of the Year award. ....
Cocaine worth R583-million that police found on Monday 1 March aboard a fishing vessel at Saldanha Harbour was a diversion, said former members of the 28s gang. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the former gangsters said that while the police could be lauded for the massive bust, the real haul worth double the amount might have gone through a different port. They say the real stash could easily have slipped through the ports of Mossel Bay and Knysna and found its way to drug kingpins. Maverick Citizen was also told that the Covid-19 regulations have led to the depletion of the drug stock in the Western Cape, which was why a stash of this magnitude had arrived. ....
On Saturday afternoon, armed men terrorised the community in Maureen Way, Lost City, in Tafelsig. Five gunmen went on a shooting spree, killing four men between the ages of 30 and 64. The victims were shot at close range, suggesting that they were deliberately targeted. The victims were sitting in front of their homes when they were taken by surprise by the gunmen in what seemed to be a coordinated attack. They were all shot in the head and the upper body. A fifth victim survived. The shooting came days after 13-year-old Tamir Mitchells, a Grade 8 pupil at Beacon Hill High, and Morgan Munnik (18), a matriculant at Aloe High School, were killed in an apparent drive-by shooting in Cadillac Street, Beacon Valley, on Thursday night. ....
Janine Manuel (39) was shot dead on Monday in Shelley Court, Atlantis, 40km north of Cape Town. The area is a stronghold of the Americans gang and family members of Manuel, fearing for their lives, confirmed that Manuel was one of the witnesses to the slaying of 28s gang member Faakhir Moosa (31) on 30 June 2016. Moosa was stabbed 13 times, and his skull was shattered. The murder was allegedly carried out by the Americans gang. In October 2020 police apprehended six suspects, including Manuel’s stepbrother, in connection with Moosa’s murder. Four of the suspects, including Manuel’s stepbrother, were granted R1,500 bail in the Atlantis Magistrates’ Court in November 2020, while two are still behind bars. The suspects are due back in court on Friday 19 February. ....
From Newlands In the end, and has been seen throughout this campaign, Western Province lacked that final clinical execution in their Currie Cup semi-final loss to the Sharks at Newlands on Saturday. The Sharks were also far from their best, but the boot of Curwin Bosch and a try from JJ van der Mescht - the only five-pointer of the game - was enough to give the visitors a 19-9 win. The Durbanites will now travel to Loftus where they will take on the Bulls in next weekend s tournament final. If this was Western Province s final ever match at Newlands, as is expected to be the case with a move to Cape Town Stadium on the cards, then they will have felt that they let themselves and their supporters down. ....