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BULLETIN 8 July 9 am

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In this bulletin:

# The MK Party Youth League condemns the attacks on John Hlophe and Duduzile Zuma
# The Eskom CEO is confident of a financial improvement
# And, Starmer cancels Sunak’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

# The MK Party Youth League has condemned the continued attacks on its members of Parliament its chief whip John Hlophe and Duduzile Zuma. The party has been criticised for recommending that impeached Western Cape Judge President Hlophe be appointed to the Judicial Service Commission. Meanwhile, Zuma has been accused of only getting a position in the party because of her father former president Jacob Zuma. MK Party Youth League’s spokesperson, Nkateko Mkhabela, says these attacks are unwarranted:

# Eskom CEO Dan Marokane says an end to load-shedding will mean that the power utility could be profitable next year. Eskom is reportedly facing an annual loss of 15-billion-rand, which is largely due to the 33-billion-rand spent on buying diesel. The power utility has successfully achieved over 100 consecutive days without load-shedding, due to its multi-dimensional generation operational recovery plan. Marokane says they have cut down on diesel, and if they maintain this trajectory, they could see a substantial financial improvement this year.

# KwaZulu-Natal police have arrested two suspects in connection with the rape and murder of an Umlazi teenager Wandile Aphiwe Ngcobo. Police spokesperson, Jay Naicker, says it is alleged that the suspects broke into the 17-year-old’s home, while she was inside in May. He says the girl’s father Mondli Ngcobo received a call from his neighbour, informing him that they spotted an unknown person wearing a balaclava leaving his home with a TV:

# Britain is set to lose millions of pounds it spent on former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s controversial plan to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda. This follows new Labour premier Keir Starmer’s cancelling of the plan after his party recorded a landslide election victory over Sunak’s Conservatives. Starmer says only about one-percent of asylum seekers would have been removed, thus the policy wouldn’t serve as a deterrent. Reuters reports he also faces challenges such as improving struggling public services and reviving a weak economy.

# Tennis: World number one Italy’s Jannik Sinner and defending champion Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz are through to the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Sinner defeated American Ben Shelton, 6-2, 6-4, 7-6, while Alcaraz beat Frenchman Ugo Humbert, 6-3, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5. In the women’s draw, American Coco Gauff became the latest high-profile seed to fall, losing to compatriot Emma Navarro, 6-4, 6-3, while New Zealand qualifier Lulu Sun knocked out British wildcard Emma Raducanu. Navarro explains what she did well in the match:

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 18-rand-16-cents and the euro at 19-rand-68-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-28-cents and Bitcoin trades at 55-thousand-266-dollars-25-cents. Gold sells at two-thousand-383-dollars-57-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 86-dollars-37-cents a barrel.

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