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Bizthe rational perspectiveNewsDigest www.biznews.com friday 09 october 2020 BizNewsCOM Cadres running scared briefs Business Long-suffering South Africans, even those more cynically inclined, have reason to celebrate Arrest Confidence Index October, now that the National Prosecution Authority is finally cracking the whip. At last count, 17 suspects had been rounded up with more arrests on the cards under the rejuvenated leadership of the 85.7 NPA, and nourished by the flow of evidence at the Zondo Commission into State Capture. It’s early September 2020 days, but a tangible momentum shift is undeniable, that the corrupt elite’s days of reckoning are coming. The likes of serially-implicated ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and former minister Nomvula Mokonyane, among others, must know it’s not if, but when the Hawks put on the cuffs and R640m take them for a drive. – Derek Alberts Sanral shortfall to date By Claire Badenhorst Ace quivering The Free State asbestos project that lead to the arrest of seven Afrimat he State Capture suspects, including fast-living interim headline Commission has heard tenderpreneur Edwin Sodi, cast earnings per share from key witnesses about even more aspersions on deeply Thow several meetings were held implicated ANC secretary general with former president Jacob Ace Magashule. 0-5% Zuma, his close friend Dudu He is said to be feeling the pressure Myeni, and Eskom executives though, so much so that he sought in 2015. According to the clarity on rumours of his imminent testimonies, four executives had arrest. R4bn to be replaced with cohorts who are more ‘Gupta-friendly’. Read the full article here Checkers The shadowy figure of former increase in Zimbabwean lawyer Nick Linell Manoeuvres in the dark market share also shed a light on how he and The hearings also cast light on the Myeni – also the former chair of “Well, if jail-time is out of the question, how about some good murky doings of one Nick Linnell, South African Airways (SAA) – an associate of Dudu Myeni, who played crucial roles in this ever- ol’ public flogging? One lash per R Million?” – Chris Summers is alleged to have done her bidding R8m thickening plot. Myeni also had behind the scenes at SAA and a hand in wrecking ’s Zondo demanded that the former However, Zuma’s intransigence Eskom. Value of economy, between enabling Gupta- president appear at the commission fired up South Africans who are Read the full article here related corruption in Eskom and in November. baying for the blood of the recalled luxury cars helping to bring SAA to its knees. The ultimatum did not go down president in a torrent of no-holds attached from Read also Running out of patience with well with Zuma who said he refuses barred tweets. accused Edwin Sodi ’s delaying tactics, to testify and also called on Zondo State capture: The Dudu Deputy Chief Justice Raymond to step down. Read the full article here and Jacob Show 16 days

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BizNews founder Alec Hogg wonders if the spirit of For more insight: resilience that saved Tongaat Hulett from catastrophe, Episode Three of Inside Investing is now hinting at a sweet investment opportunity in features the investment case for the making. Barrick and Berkshire; Purple Group and Famous Brands; plus an update on the Kisby SME fund By Alec Hogg from Mark Barnes. Watch the webinar here Listen Read hey tend to steer away from it comes to fallen angels, few JSE- emotion at SABMiller, the listed companies come close. But world class corporation after Tongaat’s success last month in DOWNLOAD THE FREE Twhich shaped Gavin Hudson the dispute on the sale of its starch who is leading Tongaat-Hullett’s business, there’s now a glimmer of BIZNEWS.COM APP rescue. light. So it’s instructive to read the The net R5bn in cash from the latest annual report where sale of the business to Barloworld Hudson describes the impact will cut the group’s debt burden by BN of his predecessor’s financial around half to R6bn. Tongaat’s market capitalisation plumbed the basement the last two years mismanagement as “devastating” The annual report puts Tongaat’s Click on the links below to and pushing the group to “the brink property holdings alone as being download your own free o f c a t a s t r o p h e”. worth R11bn. Deduct the debt and Could Tongaat really be shaping in the Rational Radio Webinar as he BizNews.com App The graph showing Tongaat we’re left with property assets worth up as the ultimate turnaround is quizzed by professional money Hulett’s market cap in the past 5x the market cap – without the opportunity? managers David Shapiro and Chris decade tells the real story. When core sugar business. Listen to what Hudson has to say Logan.

End lockdown, say scientists Eskom’s nuclear scam The delivery of the first of six new steam generators by French By Jarryd Neves These include ‘lower childhood vaccination rates, ever-worsening manufacturer Areva last week to extend the life of Eskom’s Koeberg cardiovascular disease outcomes, nuclear power station is another scam at Eskom, perpetrated during phalanx of scientists has fewer cancer screenings and the infamous leadership of Brian Molefe, Matshela Koko and the urged the government deteriorating mental health leading dodgy Eskom board at the time. to lift the lockdown in to greater excess mortality in years So says energy expert and Eskom critic Chris Yelland at a time Aview of the unintended medical when the beleaguered power utility is hogging the spotlight at the to come’. consequences. Some of the brightest minds Zondo Commission as several whistle blowers shone a light on the Among the scientists count Cape in South African business have behind-the-scenes machinations to manipulate tenders and award Town-based scientist Dr Michael Tweeted their support for the contracts to ANC cadres. Against this background, Yelland maintains Levitt who received the Nobel for Declaration, including Sygnia that the steam generators for Koeberg represent the most expensive chemistry in 2013 for developing founder Magda Wierzycka and Nick transport of scrap metal in the history of humankind. methods to calculate the courses Dr Michael Levitt Hudson, of Covid-19 thinktank of chemical reactions. PANDA. Read the full article here The initiative is gaining the support of the scientific community Known as the Great Barrington Add your voice to the debate whose members have added their Declaration, the petition points Connect via the BizNews signatures to a petition asking out that regulations are ‘producing Premium WhatsApp Group governments to rethink Covid-19 devastating effects on short and lockdowns. long-term public health’. Read the full article here The BizNews Shop Everything from investing like Warren Buffett to the Audiobiography Read Reality a figment of Zuma’s imagination of Former President Jacob Zuma is a proponent of a “post-truth” culture that negates fact-finding, expertise and research. Within such a culture, speakers become increasingly comfortable with claiming that reality is whatever they say it is, without any evidence that can be evaluated against objective criteria through reasoned argument. This approach, says Cathleen Powell, an Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of , is what former South African president Jacob Zuma adopted when he Visit the shop demanded that Deputy Chief Justice recuse himself from the state capture inquiry. 3 | friday 09 october 2020 www.biznews.com FINANCE Hedderwick speaks IN SHORT Business confidence slips on uncertainty The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Business out on Famous Brands Confidence Index (BCI) dipped marginally to 85.7 index points in September after improving to 85.8 in August. The Covid-19 In the eighth episode of The Alec Hogg Show, the pandemic and subsequent lockdown impacted worse on the business BizNews founder talks to Kevin Hedderwick about climate than the global recession of 2007/8 with the BCI well below the Famous Brands journey. the average level of 113 in 2009, Sacci says.

By Alec Hogg Listen Read Residential vacancies in double-digit territory or a decade and a half, laid at the door of Darren. I can South Africa’s flat vacancy rates soared to 11% in Q3 2020 from 7% Famous Brands was one honestly say that the business in the prior quarter as all major cities now boast vacancy rates in of the JSE’s top performing couldn’t have wished for a greater the double digits, according to the latest Rode Report on the South Fshares. But after a disastrous successor to myself. He knows African Property Market. “Rentals are heading south due to the acquisition in the UK in 2016, the business intimately. He’s a oversupply of flats, linked to huge increases in new rental stock in the share price has been spiraling wonderful man. Just give him time. 2018 and 2019 and weakening demand,” the reports says. downwards. It’s down now by two It goes back to the basic stuff. Get Kevin Hedderwick thirds from the recent peak. With the housekeeping right and the Covid-19 hammering the food balance sheet will be right. service sector, investors seem to been the hardest hit by a country be steering a wide berth. AH: Is Famous Brands still doing mile. It’s going to take a long time Less traffic hits Sanral where it hurts But things might be changing. that? to recover from it, but it’s trickling Sanral has recorded a revenue loss of R640 million to date in its I asked former Famous Brands back. I understand that in the quick 2020/21 financial year as a result of reduced traffic on toll roads chief executive Kevin Hedderwick KH: Of late, I’ve tried to stay service spaces, it’s up to 80/90% of during the lockdown. The country has been awaiting clarity on the whether his successor, Darren Hele, out of Famous Brands. I’m not what it was. In the sort of casual future of controversial e-tolling since July 2019 as the uncertainty has what it takes to get the business even a shareholder anymore. I’ve dining environment, it’s probably has resulted in low payment compliance. back to its former glory. relinquished all my shares in the up to 50/60% now. The guys serving business, because for too long I alcohol were very hard hit, at one Alec Hogg (AH): When I look at was emotionally attached to that stage doing just 25/30% of their Famous Brands’ market cap today, business. Nothing can prepare you turnovers. it’s back where it was in 2011. So for leaving a business like Famous So the landlords have been very PNP washes its hands off aQuellé you’re buying business from nine Brands, after you’ve been there 18 generous in helping. And so, Pick n Pay is the latest retailer to cut ties with the aQuellé water years ago. If he is any good or if he’s years and it’s consumed your life. of course, was the employment brand after the owners of the brand, KwaSizabantu, continue to face another Kevin Hedderwick, then So I can’t tell you what the current fund with TERS. But those two massive backlash following an exposé alleging the KZN mission was surely this would be something state of the business is because I holidays are coming to an end now. in gross violation of human rights and abusing its church members. that investors should be looking don’t go in there. When I do go Landlords won’t always say they’re Other retailers clearing their shelves are Woolworths, Makro, Game, at very closely. in there, I perhaps don’t look at it going to subsidise rent and UIF is Spar and Food Lover’s Market. through the same set of eyes that I going to dry up. So there are still Kevin Hedderwick (KH): By his used to when I was the CEO. But a few moments of truth down the own admission, he will say he’s not again I think there’s still a lot of line for a lot of the restaurant space. a Kevin Hedderwick and no two of people at Famous Brands that were us are alike. But he’s a very astute there in my time and if they’re still AH: Was it over traded? Airlink adds summer flight to Madagascar young man, not so young anymore doing what we taught them to do Airlink will commence seasonal flights between and – we’re getting older. He’s got a big or what we expected them to do, I KH: Oh, yes. it’s over traded. The Nosy Be, Madagascar, on December 13. The airline plans to operate engine; I’ve never met a man with see no reason why it shouldn’t be. funny thing is that it just doesn’t weekly flights for six to eight weeks over the peak summer holiday an appetite for work like Darren. He stop. Once a restaurant always a period. Like South Africa, Nosy Be airport opened for overseas inherited the business, which was AH: Covid has got to be a huge restaurant. There’s a site, there’s a flights on October 1. at the peak of its performance at challenge for them? restaurant, doesn’t work and closes. the time. A lot of things have gone Some other guy reopens it again. against him. KH: Covid – for the restaurant None of the stuff that’s happened industry in South Africa – has AH: Why? SA Mint shines light cataract breakthrough in Famous Brands of late could be been tragic. They’ve probably KH: I think there’s this myth The South African Mint has immortalised the invention of the about the fact that the restaurant retinal cryoprobe by Dr Selig Percy Amoils in 1965 that had business is like a magical place to revolutionised cataract surgery. The invention is featured in its 2020 work and it’s a great place to make crown and tickey coin series as part of the South African Reserve money. It’s not. It’s an unforgiving Bank subsidiary’s ongoing celebration of national inventors and business and it’s relentless. People inventions with a global impact. Only 1,000 of the sterling-silver R2 don’t understand how tough it is to crown coins and 1,000 of the sterling-silver 2½ c tickey coins have succeed in the restaurant space. It been minted. is just hard work. Long hours and hard work. Not so long ago, it was quite an attractive, sexy investment. Today, not really. Europe to tighten curbs as Covid-19 spikes Today, the returns are not what they used to be. Not too long ago, any Several countries in Europe yesterday announced plans to tighten guy that owned five Wimpys had restrictions amid growing alarm that the region is losing control the ability to be a multi-millionaire. of the coronavirus pandemic. France, Belgium, Germany, Scotland and Italy announced rising Covid-19 infections and made plans to The Famous Brands share price reflected tough times. It doesn’t exist anymore. limit gatherings and trading hours in some sectors. In Scotland, all pubs in Glasgow and Edinburgh will have to close for 16 days from tomorrow under the latest wave of Covid-19 restrictions in Scotland, The Alec The BizNews founder and broadcasting veteran hosts this half hour audio biography with a move one trade body called a “total catastrophe”. 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Explore US Living the life in Lisbon residency ne of the more exciting Listen Read and unique partnerships possibilities that BizNews has is with OLX Living, a fascinating project a renewed interest from South The EB-5 visa programme for that provides the opportunity to Africans. investors is one of the most acquire an EU passport through So the appeal for South Africans popular avenues towards a property investment in Lisbon. who’ve invested in LX Living or residency in the United States. In this excerpt on Inside Investing, indeed looked at it – and we’ve had To facilitate the process, SA- BizNews founder Alec Hogg talks enough webinars and conversations based Sable International offers to the proprietor of the project, about the project over the past few a full portfolio of relocation Malcolm Lobban. months – is that they’re going into a and investment services to society that seems to have handled individuals, families, farmers Alec Hogg (AH): Malcolm, there Covid a lot better than most parts and business people seeking have been quite a lot of developments of the world. to broaden their horizons in recently and it was a good idea to Strong demand for Lisbon property among South Africans keen on Plan B the US. catch up with you on exactly where AH: But what about the returns Accredited with the Geneva- you are standing. We were talking been talking about the project, financially immigrate into Portugal on the investment? Because I based Investment Migration earlier and you explained that the there’s been a lot of interest from and spend more than 183 days a think from the outset you’ve been Council, Sable is a leading building plans have now been the BizNews community and year in the country. There’s a basket saying this isn’t just a way to get a relocation expert. passed for the project. Just explain particularly in the whole Golden of attractive options available for Golden Visa, there actually have For a comprehensive overview why that’s so relevant? Visa idea. To put it another way, if foreigners looking for a plan B to be sizable investment returns of what it takes to become a they invest in the project, they’ll option. as well. How are they stacking up? global citizen, see the webinar Malcolm Lobban (ML): We had be able to get the right to live in hosted by BizNews founder the authority to start construction Europe. Has this been of appeal AH: As far as the South Africans ML: Bearing in mind that one is Alec Hogg. and produce the shell and we’re to people in other parts of the are concerned, are you seeing that borrowing money at all-time lows well on track with that process. world? Because I know you don’t there’s increased interest in the at the moment – around 1%, a bit View the webinar sponsored But the building plans were finally just market to South Africans. project? above fixed rate funding, long-term by Sable International here approved just a couple of weeks funding, high loan to value, up to back. The significance of that for ML: The interest in Portugal and ML: With all the challenges and 75% loan to value opportunities our European investors is that it the Golden Visa programme comes headwinds that we face in our – means that investment returns gives them comfort, that we’re fully from most parts of the world country – I think you or somebody are looking very attractive, yields compliant with future requirements where there might be a current was saying a while ago – the two around 10% on a leverage basis. for our project. challenge. The fact that there’s no big topics on many South Africans’ Also, capital growth in Lisbon crime and a bunch of tax breaks minds are corruption and foreign property prices is at 9.8% average AH: Over the months that we’ve for foreigners finally deciding to investment. Certainly, we’ve seen per annum over the past 10 years.

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n a recent Finance Friday Webinar, BizNews editor Here are some of the insights by Segall and Heystek: Finance Friday Webinar Jackie Cameron spoke to two investment experts, Magnus Heystek of Brenthurst Wealth Management “Passive fund investment is actually harder than active fund Iand Lisa Segall of GinsGlobal Index funds, about passive management because you’ve got a benchmark that you have investing. The discussion makes for great listening, not to track as closely as possible.” Jackie Cameron least because this investment vehicle’s highly attractive “If the index firm that you’re using makes a mistake, it’s very BizNews editor low-fee cost structures. a p p a r e n t .”

”The two main key points are to minimise your volatility and your risk.”

“Choose an index that’s very diversified.” Lisa Segall GinsGlobal Index Funds “Look at a global equity, which tracks the MSCI world. That’s got 1600 stocks. It’s very diversified in terms of region and s e c t o r.”

“You cannot live in the 21st century and say you’re not going Magnus Heystek to use index funds. They work and they are cheap.” Brenthurst Wealth Management

Passive investment has been gaining popularity as this graph indicates. View the Finance Friday Webinar here 5 | friday 09 october 2020 www.biznews.com LIGHT Bumbling Boris heading for a bruising

By Simon Lincoln Reader British Prime Minister Boris Johnson committed three cardinal sins that on Sunday afternoon in mid-March changed everything. have come to haunt him, at a time when he needs all his faculties to deal Whether or not the problem cross Britain, there is an with a messy Brexit divorce. could be located in the hysterical overwhelming sense of behaviour of a neurotic receptionist self-righteousness from will never be known, but Downing Athe wrong people. “Boris Johnson Street received a message claiming is a failure,” this smug, expanding that the Northwick Park hospital section barks, “and we predicted in Harrow, north London, was it so.” buckling under the strain of Interestingly, it’s not just those Covid-19 admissions. This lead to with their pronouns or verification Johnson’s third and final mistake. ticks in their Twitter handles who delight at the next incoherent Lost complete control stammer or public information Somehow this information was u-turn: among his own people couriered to Britain’s most hopeless – those voters ecstatic with (and possibly quite evil) scientist, December 13th’s result – Boris Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson, is now irreversibly unpopular. In who then inserted it into his Jack the unlikely event he were to get and the Beanstalk machine. It is not everything else right, it would not unreasonable to suggest that, at the make the slightest difference – the entrance of the appalling Ferguson, slide, unlike anything I’ve ever seen, Boris lost complete control of has been brutally rapid, merciless. Covid-19, his own administration’s response to it and subsequently, any How it came to this trace of competence. Boris’ first mistake was to conflate Covid-19 has become more than his own once undeniable popularity a crisis, extending into the charged with the election’s result. The and divisive issues of our time, Conservative Party growth agenda from race to inequality – all the was clearly more attractive than the and contentious claims, would be Read the full article here Fabian lawyer as its new leader, time gathering strength. As things reparation one featured in Labour’s flooding Parliament’s benches). the opposition sniffed blood currently stand, one of its greatest manifesto, led from the front by In the diminished reality that seriously. When it was discovered the moment the Prime Minister casualties will be the Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn (had Labour won, often follows spectacular election he had missed key COBRA belatedly took his first advice from of a nuclear power. and China not unleashed chaos on victories, Boris lost sight of the (emergency) briefings, he infuriated chief scientists and medical officers. the world, the crisis of identity and conditions attached to the votes he the left, its media support complex Initially, this advice was to pursue a Also read: Read also: historical revisionism prompted by had borrowed from the traditionally and the more sensible Labour MPs model response similar to Sweden’s This is why the Rupert Murdoch the BLM movement would have Labour-supporting north. who had survived the misery of (lock up the elderly, do not close series is grossly biased been central to policy – what we His second mistake was to avoid the Corbyn experiment. Buoyed schools or workplaces, etc.). But the Can Herman Mashaba grab have seen in flammable pockets taking the threat of Covid-19 by the election of a metropolitan, events at a North London hospital voters from the ANC?

THE WRY EYE Down Under miner’s dirty laundry Catching the hoax Rush to vote Charmed silence Environmentalists embroiled in a R14m defamation With the countdown to the US presidential Speaking of the US presidential election, Magnus Heystek of Brenthurst case against an Australian heavy minerals miner and election hotting up, the anti-Trump lobby had more than 3.8 million Americans have Wealth Management is known its South African subsidiaries, could be forgiven a wry a field day with the news that the POTUS and already cast their ballots in 31 states ahead for calling a spade what it is, and smile at news that its controversial CEO, Mark Caruso, his FLOTUS were diagnosed with Covid-19. of the November vote. According to the is seldomly at a loss of words as a has some trouble of his own back home in Perth. Caruso Social media platform Reddit was on fire early numbers compiled by the US Elections host of financial advisors would allegedly faces criminal charges of “assault, aggravated as contributors laid into the president and project, the surge in voting suggests that a attest. But viewers watching last home burglary and trespassing”, serious enough to step reminded him – and others – of his dismissive record turnout was on the cards, as only week’s Finance Friday webinar down as executive chairman of the board of Mineral arrogance towards the pandemic and calling it 75,000 had voted at this time in 2016. This hosted by BizNews editor Jackie Commodities, or MRC, but not as its CEO. While a democratic hoax. As a commentator pointed suggests the early-poll number will soar Cameron on passive investing MRC subsidiary Mineral Sand Resources churns up out drily, the POTUS caught the hoax. as more states open early voting. would have been amused at swathes of the West Coast, Transworld is coveting Heystek being taken aback at the titanium deposits buried in the pristine beaches of wit of fellow panellist Lisa Segall the Pondoland Wild Coast. MRC’s activities don't Digital danger of GinsGlobal. Flooring him with sit well with the environmentalists and their lawyers This howler from a digital a quip about “beauty before age”, who can’t wait to rub Caruso’s nose in the dirt he is publication in the Knysna Heystek, urged to go first, for so keen to mine. area speaks for itself. once, was left utterly speechless. 6 | friday 09 october 2020 www.biznews.com LIGHT It’s kick-off time, finally! By Derek Alberts Unlocked Friday, 9 October uch to the anticipation 7 pm: vs Lions of rugby fans in South Saturday, 10 October Africa starved of action 4.30 pm: vs Mover the past six months, the 7 pm: vs revamped domestic season kicks By: Stormers off this weekend. Six of the seven sides involved in the Super Rugby Unlocked competition will strut their stuff Griquas in Bloemfontein in the this weekend. While the Stormers early match on Saturday. Having have a by, the Sharks will host the been ejected from the PRO14, the Lions on Friday evening, followed boys from Bloem will be keen to by the clashes between the Cheetahs put down a marker and remind the and Pumas, and the Bulls taking on administrators of their contribution the Griquas outfit from Kimberley. to the local game. The Sharks, the in-form side The Bulls, fresh off their win over before the early termination of Springbok captain will not see action this weekend in view of the Stormers’ by. the Sharks, will be confident against Super Rugby action thanks to the team from Mpumalanga when the coronavirus pandemic, hope prepare his team and also bring Also read: may well be decided up front with they meet under lights at Loftus homeground advantage – albeit in in some of the stalwart players both the Sharks and Lions fielding Versveld. a deserted King’s Park – will give who, for one reason or another, SA teams Bulls, Lions, Sharks, a number of Bok hopefuls in their The Nelspruit-based team has, them the platform against their did not make the trip to Pretoria Stormers to play in Europe packs. Teams will hope for the set over the years, accounted for the upcountry rivals. last weekend. The Lions, too, would pieces to flow smoothly and create scalps of better resourced teams. Coming off a loss against the Bulls be hoping for a more commanding unknown quantity, the Lions can space for both backlines brimming However, whether the Pumas in the season-opening showdown performance after going down to expect to rely on the boot of stand- with serious pace out wide. can pull off a win against the Jake last weekend, Sharks coach Sean the Stormers in the other match of in Bok flyhalf . The Cheetahs have plenty to play White-coached Bulls remains to Everitt would have had time to the double header. Pretty much an The battle between the old rivals for when they host the neighbouring be seen.

Bok showdown reveals little Will the Boks play? By Derek Alberts absence of Handré Pollard, thanks Proceedings otherwise confirmed Despite frenetic preparations at home ahead of the rejigged southern to the crisp service from the stand- the obvious, that domestic players hemisphere Rugby Championship, South Africa’s participation in out player of the day, scrumhalf need more time on the field. The the competition kicking off on November 7 remains in doubt. he only positive from Sanele Nohamba. The Sharks scoreline notwithstanding, the the weekend’s Springbok number 9 had a blinder and earned teams were evenly matched in most A final decision about the World Cup champions’ participation in showdown – with Green himself a tick behind his name with departments. the four-nation showpiece will be made on Saturday, October 10, Tbeating Gold 25-9 – is that the a fluid, influential game at the base To read more into the match-up ironically the same day that a revamped domestic tournament gets players who took to the field of the scrum. A singularly gifted ball of two very differently composed underway. avoided serious injury. player, Nohamba is destined for a teams, is folly. The gold team’s The main concern is that the Springbok side is decidedly undercooked Representing the best domestic great Springbok future. decision to build a squad on a for what is likely to be a tough competition against Australia, Argentina talent currently, any additions to The opposite applies to another Stormers spine didn’t pay off, and not and New Zealand. It is a concern that Springbok coach Jacques the walking wounded would have precocious talent, Stormers flyhalf only because of young Willemse’s Nienaber has repeatedly aired over fears that his charges won’t be caused the coaches more headaches, Damien Willemse who had a day implosion. The difference on the physically ready for the tournament in Australia from November especially with a mounting list of he’d rather forget. Not only did he day was accurate goal-kicking, a 7 to December 12. injuries among the Europe-based leave his kicking boots at home, few fortuitous bounces, and the While the Wallabies and All Blacks have been playing competitively, players. he also copped a yellow card and inventive play of Nohamba. On a South Africa and Argentina have been hamstrung by the coronavirus Pivot Elton Jantjies put in a a penalty try for a cringe-worthy different day, the result could easily lockdown conditions. All will be revealed on Saturday. workman-like performance in the foul on Yaw Penxe. have gone the other way.

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