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BULLETIN 10 July 8 am

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In this bulletin:

# The MK Party opens a criminal case against minister Mchunu and commissioner Sibiya
# The DA in Tshwane wins a double victory
# And tennis: It is Djokovic against Sinner in the Wimbledon semifinal

# The MK Party has opened a criminal case against Police minister Senzo Mchunu and deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya at Pretoria’s Brooklyn Police Station. This is for perjury and defeating the ends of justice following allegations made by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi. He claimed that Mchunu and Sibiya are complicit in a syndicate, controlled by drug cartels and business people, who have infiltrated organised crime in the country. MK Party’s David Skosana told the SABC that accountability is key:

# Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi says Treasury has allocated 750-million-rand to the department to plug the funding gap left by the US withdrawal of the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief. Pepfar funding accounted for only 17-percent of the country’s HIV response funding. Motsoaledi told Parliament that 590-million-rand will be allocated to provinces through the comprehensive HIV/Aids section of the district health programme grant. He added that the government is committed to eliminating HIV/Aids as a public health threat by 2030.

# The DA in Tshwane has won the by-elections in ward 44 with councillor Samantha de la Rey and ward 98 with Mickey van der Westhuizen. In ward 44, the party’s vote share increased from 74.3-percent in the 2024 national and provincial elections to 88.07-percent this year. In ward 98, the party’s vote share grew from 37.5-percent to 72.77-percent. The DA Tshwane Caucus Leader, Cilliers Brink, says these results are a major boost ahead of next year’s local government election:

# The US is imposing sanctions on the United Nations Human Rights Council special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the sanctioning of Albanese is for directly engaging with the International Criminal Court in its efforts to prosecute American or Israeli nationals. Rubio also accused Albanese of having spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for America, Israel, and the West. Albanese has been a strong supporter of the ICC’s arrest warrants against Israeli officials, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

# Tennis: Seven-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic has set up a mouth-watering semifinal clash against world number one Jannik Sinner of Italy. The Serb defeated Italian Flavio Cobolli, 6-7, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4, while Sinner beat American Ben Shelton, 7-6, 6-4, 6-4. In the women’s draw, Poland’s Iga Swiatek and Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic are both through to their maiden semifinal at the grass-court Grand Slam. Djokovic says reaching a 14th semifinal at Wimbledon is special:

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-78-cents and the euro at 20-rand-87-cents. One British pound costs 24-rand-19-cents and Bitcoin trades at 111-thousand-164-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-319-dollars-55-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 69-dollars-56-cents a barrel.

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