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BULLETIN 11 November 4 pm

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In this bulletin:

# Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala accuses IDAC of fabricating evidence against Bheki Cele
# The ANC in Greater Johannesburg confirms a disciplinary process involving Thuthukile Zuma
# And swimming: The FF Plus demands urgent action after Tatjana Smith switches to the Netherlands

# Alleged cartel member Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala has accused the Investigating Directorate Against Corruption of fabricating evidence to implicate and charge former Police minister Bheki Cele of corruption. Testifying before the Madlanga Commission, Matlala alleges investigators exaggerated payments and created a false history between him, Cele and late taxi boss Mswazi Msibi. He says their first actual meeting was in December 2024, after previously seeing Cele at Msibi’s funeral:

# The daughter of former president Jacob Zuma and former minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, Thuthukile, has resigned from the ANC’s Johannesburg regional executive committee. She has accused party leaders of trying to silence her for speaking out against what she describes as organisational dysfunction. The party’s spokesperson, Mantombi Nkosi, says Zuma’s resignation follows disciplinary proceedings initiated by regional secretary Sasabona Manganye over her alleged failure to fulfil her duties as an REC member and criticism of the ANC on social media:

# Western Cape premier Alan Winde says efforts to create jobs in the province continue to show encouraging results. The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey data for the province shows that the region’s unemployment rate has dropped to 19.4-percent in quarter three of this year, down from 19.5-percent in the previous quarter. This is well below the national unemployment rate of 33.7-percent. Winde says the Western Cape is home to 69-thousand more jobs than it was a year ago:

Moving abroad:

# Nvidia is facing scrutiny over allegations that a Chinese businesswoman linked to its chief executive, Jensen Huang, was involved in smuggling restricted chips to China. Reports say her network helped move at least 123-billion-rand’s worth of restricted Nvidia chips to China. Huang has acknowledged an affair with the woman but denies knowing of any alleged espionage. Nvidia’s board has launched an independent investigation, saying there is no evidence that company secrets or national security were compromised. US lawmakers are also calling for tighter controls on chip exports to China.

# Swimming: The Freedom Front Plus will ask Sports minister Gayton McKenzie to intervene urgently after Tatjana Smith announced she will swim for the Netherlands. South Africa’s most decorated Olympian is targeting the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, saying she feels excluded and neglected. Smith fought through lawyers for 578-thousand-rand prize money from the 2023 Fukuoka World Championship withheld by Swimming South Africa. The party’s Heloïse Denner blames administrative incompetence, financial misconduct and contempt for swimmers, and demands an independent inquiry into Swimming South Africa.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 16-rand-55-cents and the euro at 18-rand-43-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-3-cents and Bitcoin trades at 73-thousand-967-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-44-dollars-20-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 95-dollars-74-sents a barrel.

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