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BULLETIN 11 November 6 pm

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In this bulletin:

# Julius Malema slams Shamila Batohi for withholding the name of the accused NPA prosecutor
# BOSA wants 2-billion-rand VIP protection scrapped to fund teachers, nurses and police
# And, OUTA says the AARTO delay exposes the government’s administrative chaos

# EFF leader Julius Malema has criticised National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batohi, for refusing to name a National Prosecuting Authority prosecutor accused of involvement in organised crime. Batohi told Parliament’s ad hoc committee on police corruption that investigations are underway, but declined to reveal the person’s identity. Malema says a corrupt NPA threatens the Constitution, and insists that if Batohi cannot provide names, she should step aside:

# Build One South Africa has urged government to scrap the two-billion-rand VIP protection budget for politicians and use it to hire more teachers, nurses and police members. Ahead of tomorrow’s medium-term budget policy statement, BOSA spokesperson Roger Solomons warns that South Africa faces slow growth, high debt and worsening unemployment, especially among young people. He says frontline services cannot face further cuts, calling for an end to political luxuries.

# The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse says government’s decision to delay the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences traffic penalty system to July next year shows the real problem is chaos within the state, not motorists. Municipalities want to pull out because the system is costly and ineffective. OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage says the system has never been ready and remains unworkable, with new regulations rushed through without proper consultation and even containing unreadable sections:

# Taiwan evacuated more than three-thousand people today, issuing a land warning for the arrival of Typhoon Fung-wong. The storm is expected to dump large volumes of rain on the country’s mountainous east coast, recently lashed by another typhoon. The weakening Fung-wong is forecast to hit land on Wednesday on the island’s southwestern coast around the major port of Kaohsiung, after it killed 18 people while powering through the Philippines as a much stronger system. The country’s President Lai Ching-te meanwhile urged people to keep clear of the mountains, the coast and other potentially dangerous areas.

# Motorsport: The MotoGP season concludes at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, Spain, this weekend. Local rider Marc Márquez already secured the overall riders’ championship with his younger brother and Ducati teammate, Álex, in second place. The focus now shifts entirely to the battle for third place. Italian Marco Bezzecchi holds a slim points advantage over compatriot Francesco Bagnaia, meaning the final race result will directly determine which rider claims the third spot on the season’s podium. The event marks the championship’s return to the Spanish circuit.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-15-cents and the euro at 19-rand-89-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-58-cents and Bitcoin trades at 104-thousand-445-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-137-dollars-38-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 64-dollars-56-cents a barrel.

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