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BULLETIN 9 May 6 pm

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In this bulletin:

# The NPA urges the public to aid in locating Joslin Smith amid the sentencing proceedings
# ActionSA says Orania and Kleinfontein symbolise division, not culture
# And occer: Mohamed Salah wins journalists’ Player of the Year award for the third time

# The National Prosecuting Authority in the Western Cape is urging anyone with information about the whereabouts of seven-year-old Joslin Smith to come forward. Joslin vanished from her Saldanha Bay home in February 2024. Her mother, Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, have been convicted of kidnapping and human trafficking. The sentencing is set for 29 May. The NPA’s Eric Ntabazalila says the search for Joslin continues:

# ActionSA has rejected Orania in the Northern Cape and the Kleinfontein Afrikaner settlement near Pretoria as symbols of apartheid nostalgia and not cultural communities. The party says these enclaves misuse the Constitution to justify racial separation and promote fear and division rather than unity. During Parliament’s mini plenary session, ActionSA’s Lerato Ngobeni blamed the ANC for allowing apartheid’s legacy to persist under the guise of cultural expression:

# The Gauteng Department of Health says patient care at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital has not been compromised. This follows recent issues with hot water and temporary food supply delays. The department’s Motalatale Modiba says two blocks were affected by a hot water outage due to corroded coils now being replaced, and food delays in March were resolved with patients continuing to receive three meals a day:

# Soccer: Mohamed Salah won the Soccer Writers’ Association’s Player of the Year award for the third time after inspiring Liverpool’s march to a record-equalling 20th English title. Salah earned the prize after scoring 28 goals and producing 18 assists for Liverpool in the Premier League this season. The Egyptian forward broke the record for the most goal involvements in a 38-game Premier League campaign as Arne Slot’s side romped to their first title since 2020. Salah secured almost 90-percent of the journalists’ votes, marking the biggest winning margin this century.

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 18-rand-27-cents and the euro at 20-rand-60-cents. One British pound costs 24-rand-29-cents and Bitcoin trades at 103-thousand-21-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-330-dollars-55-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 63-dollars-8-cents a barrel.

# And finally: Two British men, Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers, have been found guilty of criminal damage for deliberately felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England. The tree, at a spot known as Sycamore Gap, was located on the historic UNESCO World Heritage listed Hadrian’s Wall, which was constructed almost two-thousand years ago to guard the furthest northwestern frontier of the Roman Empire. The sycamore tree was made famous to millions around the world when it appeared in Kevin Costner’s 1991 blockbuster movie Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.

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