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BULLETIN 27 November 9 am
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In this bulletin:
# Julius Malema says the EFF has revived the interest of the youth in politics
# The South African Post Office’s business rescue practitioners are looking for a strategic partner
# And soccer, South Africa withdraws its bid to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup
# EFF leader Julius Malema says the party has changed the face of politics including reviving the interest of the youth in politics. He addressed the party’s Free State Provincial Ground Forces Forum yesterday. Young people between the ages of 16 and 29 made up the majority of first-time registrations at 78.31-percent during the voter registration weekend earlier this month. Malema says the youth of South Africa have had enough of the ANC’s mediocrity and lies:
# The South African Post Office’s business rescue practitioners want to bring in a strategic partner to help manage its 1.8-billion-rand property portfolio and choose what can be sold off. The Post Office has been under business rescue since July, a process that is an attempt to rehabilitate financially distressed companies by restructuring their affairs. The state-owned entity owns 427 properties and leases hundreds more. Joint business rescue practitioners, Anoosh Rooplal and Juanito Damons are also hoping to save 1.2-billion-rand a year in employee costs by cutting six-thousand jobs.
# Gauteng police have arrested a 21-year-old student for the rape and murder of Johannesburg schoolteacher Kirsten Kluyts. She disappeared while participating in a weekly run on the 29th of last month at George Lea Park in Parkmore. Kluyts was later found attacked, raped, and murdered down an embankment. Police spokesperson, Brenda Muridili, says the suspect was arrested yesterday:
# Soccer: South Africa have pulled out of the contest to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup, citing fears they would have to deliver a “rushed presentation” to Fifa during December. The deadline for submitting comprehensive plans is 8 December and South African officials believe it would be wiser to try and host the following edition in 2031. The withdrawal reduces the 2027 contest to three bids – joint ones by Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, and Mexico, and the United States, and one from Brazil.
# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 18-rand-80-cents and the euro at 20-rand-59-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-72-cents and Bitcoin trades at 37-thousand-377-dollars-84-cents. Gold sells at two-thousand-and-13-dollars-8-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 79-dollars-63-cents a barrel.
# And finally, Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize for his fifth novel Prophet Song. Set in Dublin, it tells the story of a family grappling with a terrifying new world in which the democratic norms they are used to begin to disappear. This is the second year in a row that a novel about political conflict has won the prize. Last year, Shehan Karunatilaka won with The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, set during the Sri Lankan civil war. Lynch has won 1.19-million-rand in prize money.
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