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BULLETIN 18 November 2 pm

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In this bulletin:

# Fikile Mbalula says ANC members are rebuilding the party
# The GOOD party says South Africans cannot afford Eskom’s 36-percent price hike
# And rugby: Four Springboks are nominated for the World Rugby Awards

# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the party’s members are the ones that can rebuild the organisation to its former glory. Mbalula addressed the party’s Foundation Course National Workshop in Boksburg. He says membership and leadership cannot be bought, it is earned, and revolutionaries must be distinguishable from vigilantes. He says they are strengthening the organisation and in doing so, certain decisions have to be made:

# The GOOD party says access to electricity is a basic right and under the current economic climate, South Africans simply cannot afford Eskom’s steep 36-percent tariff hike. The GOOD party Brett Herron says in Cape Town, it is the DA-led government that is putting consumers under pressure by charging exorbitant and illegal rates. He says GOOD will today protest outside the NERSA hearing in Cape Town:

# The sheriff of the High Court will auction Road Accident Fund assets to the value of 18-million-rand on 5 December, following non-payment of claims. Speaking to The Citizen, the fund’s spokesperson, McIntosh Polela, confirmed that most seizures target the East London and Johannesburg offices. Polela confirmed the fund’s financial struggles, including leasing equipment to avoid asset attachment. Meanwhile, critics have blamed the fund for mismanagement, since they have a backlog of 321-thousand claims.

# Rugby: Four Springbok players have been nominated for the World Rugby Awards. South Africa’s most capped player, Eben Etzebeth, Cheslin Kolbe and Pieter-Steph du Toit will come up against Caelan Doris of Ireland for Men’s 15s Player of the Year when the winners are announced in Monaco this coming Sunday. Sacha Feinberg Mngomezulu has a chance to win the Men’s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year award. The others nominated in that category are Jamie Osborn of Ireland, Wallace Sititi of New Zealand and Immanuel Feyi-Wabaso of England.

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 18-rand-10-cents and the euro at 19-rand-11-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-86-cents and Bitcoin trades at 91-thousand-854-dollars. Gold sells at two-thousand-592-dollars-15-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 70-dollars-46-cents a barrel.

# And finally: Hollywood superstars Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and Chris Evans‘ Christmas movie Red One brought in over six-billion-rand from over four-thousand North American theatres in its box office debut. Red One is the first proper Christmas movie to play in theatres since before the Covid-19 pandemic when The Grinch opened in 2018. The movie will have serious competition from upcoming releases including the much-anticipated Universal’s Wicked, Paramount’s Gladiator 2 and Walt Disney Animation’s Moana 2.

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