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Scotland captain Jamie Ritchie returns from injury to start against Vodacom Bulls at Hive Stadium tomorrow night (Friday 17 November, kick-off 7.35pm) – live on Viaplay. The back-row hasn’t played since being injured in the national side’s Rugby World Cup clash with Ireland at Stade de France, but returns to bolster Edinburgh’s back-row as one of three changes to …
The Disciplinary process related to Taine Basham’s Red Card in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship Round 4 game against Leinster on Sunday, November 12 has resulted in a four game suspension. After an act of foul play by Dragons RFC player No 7 (Taine Basham), referee Gianluca Gnecchi showed the Player a Red Card in …
There will be a repeat of last season’s BKT URC Grand Final this weekend when champions Munster Rugby take on the DHL Stormers once again – but this time in Limerick rather than Cape Town. Both teams go into the fixture on the back of defeats, with Munster having lost 21-14 to Ulster in Belfast …
The Hollywoodbets Sharks are back in Durban this week with the sole aim to get their Vodacom United Rugby Championship campaign back on track, while the other three South African franchises are nearing the end of their early-season tours in the Northern Hemisphere. Three of the four South African sides take on teams from Ireland …
Having spent a World Cup campaign of highs and lows vying with Elliot Dee and Ryan Elias for the Wales hooking berth, Dewi Lake is now ready to resume battle with his rivals on the BKT URC stage. This Saturday, he travels to Rodney Parade with the Ospreys for a derby clash against Dee’s Dragons …
South Africa and World Cup semi-finals have produced so many heartbreaking moments over the years – my hope is that 2023 will be the year that it all changes. It is not just that we have played in four of them and lost them all, it is that on each and every occasion, the fates …
Driven by the agony of last season’s Vodacom United Rugby Championship Grand Final defeat at their fortress in Cape Town, the DHL Stormers are determined to hunt down Munster in Saturday’s rematch in Limerick. Munster wrote themselves into rugby folklore by ending the DHL Stormers’ record winning run at DHL Stadium in April, before the …
It’s been a tale of tight affairs and close contests in the Vodacom URC so far this season. In the first four rounds, there have been no fewer than 18 matches where the margin between the sides was seven or less points, including one draw. That has seen a host of losing bonus points being …
In 2017, Shona-Leah Weston’s rugby career with the Springbok Women took a tumble, literally and figuratively. Weston, a dual Springbok Women’s player with five Test caps to her name and a member of the national sevens squad who had just secured World Series status in 2014, stepped into a manhole and seriously injured her ankle. …
Dan Sheehan says getting back to Vodacom URC business was the best way of getting over the “massive disappointment” of Ireland’s World Cup exit. The 21-cap hooker returned to action for Leinster in Sunday’s clash with Dragons RFC at Rodney Parade and marked the occasion by captaining the province for the first time, leading them …
Eskom CEO Brian Molefe is of the view that legislation in South Africa should be changed, making it standard to use prepaid electricity. Speaking to MPs during a parliamentary briefing with Eskom and the Select Committee on Communications and Public Enterprises about the power utility’s tariff hike for 2016 to 2017, Molefe said prepaid electricity […]
Ross Taylor says that as New Zealand prepare to take on India in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 semi-finals, it is impossible not to look back at the parallels with 2019. Four years ago, India went into the semi-final in Manchester as the form side in the tournament, while we were more focused …
Rod Tucker will stand in his 100th ODI during the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 semi-final between India and New Zealand. The Australian and Richard Illingworth of England will be the on-field umpires for the Mumbai clash between the host nation and the 2019 runners-up, who beat India at the same stage four years …
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has revealed the latest cricketing icons that are to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame as the Class of 2023. Following a voting process conducted among existing Hall of Famers, media representatives and senior executives from FICA and the ICC, three new names will be added to the …
By Ronald Hermans – Product Manager Connexo Insight & Alliances Prepaid or Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) energy is set to open up a completely new way of doing business for utility companies. Advanced roadmaps are being developed for payments and communications that can anticipate rather than just follow the customers’ expectations. The notion of prepayment has long […]
Source: Temporary or Private Prepaid Electricity Meters solve landlord headaches The pressure on landlords with regards to controlling electricity consumption by tenants increases every day. Landlords could be ultimately held responsible for the consumption of electricity on their properties and this opens them up to abuse by an errant tenant. A number of solutions are […]
The Vodacom Bulls and Emirates Lions held the torch for the South African franchises in the Vodacom United Rugby Championship with hard-fought victories in Wales this weekend, as the DHL Stormers and Hollywoodbets Sharks found the going tough in Italy in the fourth round of the competition. The two sides from Gauteng won their matches …
Large commercial and industrial premises invariably offer three phase Eskom or Municipal electric power as standard to business. There is a growing move to sub let sections of a larger commercial and industrial premises to tenants which necessitates the need to measure and charge for electricity consumed by the tenant. In the case of a […]
There was once a time when we didn’t really concern ourselves with the cost of water – a leak in the system was seen as a neat way of watering the plants, water was cheap and plentiful. As the grip of climate change, a renewed sense of caring for our scarce resources evolved. A growing […]
If your prepaid meter stops accepting new tokens on or after 24 November 2023 then the problem is most likely a Token Identifier (TID) fault and you will need to update your prepaid meter (electricity, water or gas) by purchasing more units and following the instructions printed on your receipt. Currently installed prepaid meters will […]
A multimillion rand project set to establish two Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) hardware mass production facilities and 13 distribution satellite warehouses is to be rolled out nationwide. The project will be administered and managed by Madinda Utilities, a Pretoria-based AMI hardware manufacturer and utilities diagnostics specialist company that has over 25 years of industrial experience […]
Should you have a main prepaid electricity, water or gas meter in your home it may have to be ‘recoded’ in order to continue dispensing electricity, water or gas after November 2024. Please note that this also applies to PRIVATE pre-paid meters as supplied by Straton Electrical Pre-Paid and the many other vendors around the […]
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Board has suspended Sri Lanka Cricket’s membership of the ICC with immediate effect. The ICC Board met today and determined that Sri Lanka Cricket is in serious breach of its obligations as a Member, in particular, the requirement to manage its affairs autonomously and ensure that there is no government …
There are four changes to the DHL Stormers starting line-up for their Vodacom United Rugby Championship clash with Benetton Treviso on Saturday. There are two changes in the backline and two in the forward pack for the Round Four encounter, which kicks off at 17h00 SA time on Saturday at Stadio Monigo. The match will …