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BULLETIN 1 July 6 am

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In this bulletin:

# March and March vows to hold weekly anti-illegal immigration protests
# The US Supreme Court rules against Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship
# And rugby: Luan Giliomee and Markus Muller are in the Junior Boks’ starting-15 for the match against Georgia

# Anti-immigration civic group March and March leader, Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, says the movement will hold protests every Thursday for the next six months. This is to put sustained pressure on the government to deport undocumented foreign nationals and enforce immigration laws. Thousands took to the streets across the country yesterday in protest against undocumented migrants. The demonstrations were largely peaceful, with flares of tension rising in certain areas and arrests made. Ngobese-Zuma says they will assess the government’s response to demands submitted during the marches.

Meanwhile, thousands of undocumented Malawian nationals spent another night at the Musina Showgrounds near the Beitbridge Border Post in Limpopo, after spending yesterday queuing outside the Home Affairs office. The group, which was transported by buses from Durban and Pietermaritzburg on Monday, is seeking the necessary documents to cross through the Beitbridge Border Post. By midday yesterday, only three-thousand-and-99 Malawians and Zimbabweans left through the Beitbridge Border. The Musina Home Affairs office says it has been inundated by thousands of Malawian nationals seeking documents to allow them to return home.

# The Madlanga Commission has heard allegations that associates of Major-General Feroz Khan offered MK Party Member of Parliament Vusi Shongwe a Checkers security tender and ten-million-rand to stop probing Khan. The money was allegedly to be handed over in Sandton. Shongwe denied accepting any bribe and rejected claims that he was influenced. He told the commission that if he accepted the money, he would have given it to charities and reported it to Parliament:

# The DA in Gauteng says the province’s 2026/2027 environment budget of 646-million-rand is not enough to deal with worsening pollution and an environmental crisis. The party voted against the budget, citing that residents are being affected daily by poor air quality monitoring, sewage pollution in rivers, and weak climate change planning. The DA’s Leanne de Jager says reduced funding has worsened pollution in industrial areas like Ekurhuleni and Tshwane:

# The US Supreme Court has ruled against president Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship in America by executive order. The court’s decision was a 6-3 ruling, reaffirming that anyone born in the US is a citizen, even if that child’s parents are not. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says the ruling is one of the most destructive and outrageous decisions in the long history of the Supreme Court. He says American citizenship is not the birthright of the world; it belongs only and solely to Americans.

# Rugby: Young Sharks flyhalf Luan Giliomee will wear the Junior Boks’ number ten jersey in Thursday’s Junior World Championship match against hosts Georgia. He was moved from fullback, while another prodigy, the Stormers’ Markus Muller, comes in on inside centre. Coach Kevin Foote rung the changes after his charges thrashed Uruguay 104-7 in their opening game on Saturday, with only four players of that squad remaining. Giliomee and Muller were on the bench against Uruguay.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 16-rand-36-cents and the euro at 18-rand-70-cents. One British pound costs 21-rand-70-cents and Bitcoin trades at 58-thousand-500-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-15-dollars-14-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 72-dollars-92-cents a barrel.

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