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BULLETIN 15 January 9 am

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In this bulletin:

# Julius Malema says the MK Party is to blame for the EFF’s decline
# Sadtu says empowering girls should not come at the expense of boys
# And former Miss SA Demi-Leigh Tebow is expecting her first child

# EFF leader Julius Malema says the formation of former president Jacob Zuma’s MK Party is to blame for the party’s electoral decline at last year’s general election. The EFF’s national support dropped to 9.5-percent in the May general elections from 10.8-percent in 2019 and was overtaken by the MK Party as the country’s third-largest party. Malema told eNCA that EFF supporters were misled especially in KwaZulu-Natal:

# The South African Democratic Teachers’ Union is calling on the Department of Basic Education to do more to ensure that both girl and boy learners succeed equally. This as more female learners wrote the 2024 National Senior Certificate examinations and outperformed male learners. Sadtu’s spokesperson, Nomusa Cembi, says the government must prioritise education as a vital investment in addressing social and economic challenges:

# Impeached South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested at his residence and taken in for questioning, over his ill-fated declaration of martial law last month. The embattled president has been holed up in his residence protected by armed security for weeks, evading arrest as he faces several probes and an impeachment trial. His detention makes him the first sitting president in the nation’s history to be arrested. Yoon has dismissed the investigations into him as illegal and says the law is all broken in the country.

# Soccer: Liverpool stretched their unbeaten run in the Premier League to 16 games after clinching a one-all draw against Nottingham Forest. Diogo Jota’s goal for Liverpool levelled it up after Chris Wood’s early strike, as Arne Slot’s side stay six points clear at the top. Meanwhile, reigning champions Manchester City threw away a two-nil lead to draw two-all against Brentford. City are now 12 points behind Liverpool. City manager, Pep Guardiola, says they did not make the right decisions at crucial moments:

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 18-rand-94-cents and the euro at 19-rand-50-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-10-cents and Bitcoin trades at 97-thousand-341-dollars-46-cents. Gold sells at two-thousand-676-dollars-18-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 79-dollars-27-cents a barrel.

# And finally, former Miss South Africa and Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Tebow and her husband former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow are expecting their first child together. The couple got married in Franschhoek, Western Cape, in January 2020. Demi-Leigh was crowned Miss South Africa in 2017 and went on to win both Miss Universe and Miss World titles that same year. The couple told People Magazine that they are ready to bring what they’ve learned from the last five years of their marriage into parenthood.

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