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BULLETIN 26 June 12 pm

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In this bulletin:

# Jacob Zuma wants the court to set aside the ANC’s decision to terminate his membership
# GIWUSA says the ANC has betrayed the Freedom Charter
# And no major incidents were reported overnight after heavy rainfall across Cape Town

# MK Party president Jacob Zuma has launched a High Court application against the ANC and its president, Cyril Ramaphosa. He wants the court to set aside what he says is the ANC’s unlawful decision to terminate his 65 year-long membership. Zuma was expelled last year for his role in the formation of the MK Party. MK says it is fully behind Zuma in this ground-breaking case which will hopefully see his dual membership restored.

Meanwhile, the union Giwusa says the ANC has spent 70 years betraying the revolutionary kernel of the Freedom Charter. Today is the 70th anniversary of the charter which was adopted in Kliptown, Soweto, in 1955. GIWUSA president, Mametlwe Sebei, says the ANC has betrayed the charter by denying its socialist implications and enforcing neoliberalism with the DA in the government of national unity:

# The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management says no major flooding incidents have been reported overnight. Spokesperson Sonica Lategan says organisations, including the Mustadafin Foundation and Islamic Relief, have assisted in Vygieskraal and Belgravia where more than 600 people were impacted:

# A senior delegation of Afrikaner leaders held a high-level meeting with senior officials from the White House in Washington. The delegation comprised Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder, Southern African Agri Initiative executive board chairperson Theo de Jager, and National Employers’ Association of South Africa CEO, Gerhard Papenfus. The officials set out the necessary preconditions for the normalisation of bilateral relations. These include classifying farm attacks as a priority crime and no land expropriation without fair market compensation.

# Athletics: Kenya’s triple Olympic champion in the one-thousand-500-metres, Faith Kipyegon, will try to become the first woman to run the mile in under four minutes in the French capital of Paris tonight. Nike’s “Breaking4” project follows the success of Kipyegon’s compatriot Eliud Kipchoge’s unofficial sub-two hour marathon. The world-renowned manufacturer believes her 85-gram super-spikes will give her a very good chance. Kipyegon, who will be helped by pacers, have to shave off over seven seconds from her own 2023 world record over the distance.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-59-cents and the euro at 20-rand-63-cents. One British pound costs 24-rand-20-cents and Bitcoin trades at 107-thousand-994-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-345-dollars-89-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 66-dollars-47-cents a barrel.

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