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BULLETIN 10 November 6 am

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In this bulletin:

# Fikile Mbalula says the G20 summit will go ahead without the US
# Nearly one-million people are evacuated as a second typhoon hits the Philippines
# And golf: South African Casey Jarvis wins the Hyundai Open

# ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the G20 Leaders’ Summit will go ahead with or without the US being represented. This comes after US president Donald Trump stated that they would boycott the summit. Posting on his Truth Social platform, he said it is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa, as Afrikaners are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated. Mbalula told eNCA that Trump’s statements are false and imperialist interference:

# The Forum for South Africa says it is deeply perturbed by the slow pace in investigating allegations of Rand–US Dollar exchange rate manipulation by several major local and international banks. Forum leader, Tebogo Mashilompane, says traders colluded to fix prices, coordinate bids, and distort the value of the South African Rand, acts which have directly undermined the integrity of our financial system and hurt the livelihoods of ordinary South Africans:

# South Africa will from today until Wednesday, host a landmark gathering of global water and sanitation leaders in Johannesburg. The Water and Sanitation minister, Pemmy Majodina, will lead the dialogue, marking the start of a high-level engagement aimed at driving new solutions for water security and sanitation across Africa and the Global South. The department says more than one-thousand-500 delegates from across the continent and the broader Global South will attend, including government leaders, water utility executives, researchers, youth innovators, civil society organisations, and private sector partners.

# The DA has noted with deep concern the escape of convicted rapist, Jakob September, from Helderstroom Maximum Correctional Centre in Caledon, in the Western Cape on Saturday. The party says September, originally from Riversdale, was serving a 28-year sentence for violent sexual offences. The DA’s Nicholas Gotsell says they are demanding that both the Western Cape provincial police commissioner Thembisile Patekile, and Correctional Services, Pieter Groenewald urgently appear before Parliament:

# Almost 920-thousand residents have been evacuated from eleven regions as Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall in the Philippines on Sunday. Two people have died. The storm, which was upgraded to a super typhoon before hitting land, is expected to cause severe flooding and landslides. This comes days after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit the country, killing at least 224 people and leaving another 135 missing, while five people died in Vietnam. The Filipino government declared a state of calamity after Typhoon Kalmaegi, and in preparation for the coming storm.

# Golf: South Africa’s Casey Jarvis won his maiden Sunshine Tour title in the Hyundai Open at the Ebotse Golf and Country Estate in Benoni. The 22-year-old closed with a 68 to win on 23 under par. His friend and compatriot Ryan van Velzen finished second on 22 under par. Sunshine Tour rookie Warwick Purchase finished third on 20 under par with a closing 68, and is in the running for the Fortress Rookie of the Year title. Jarvis says the final round was tough:

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-29-cents and the euro at 19-rand-97-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-73-cents and Bitcoin trades at 104-thousand-809-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-9-dollars-8-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 63-dollars-46-cents a barrel.

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