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BULLETIN 4 November 8 am

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In this bulletin:

# Paul Mashatile reportedly appeared before the ANC integrity commission
# John Hlophe says the MK Party will never join the government of national unity
# And Donald Trump says he shouldn’t have left the White House in 2020

# Deputy president Paul Mashatile reportedly appeared before the ANC’s Integrity Commission at the weekend. According to the City Press, he was called to account for all the allegations mentioned against him in the media. Several exposés alleged Mashatile’s son-in-law benefited from state tenders and that the deputy president lived in houses allegedly bought with money made from tenders. He also allegedly misled Parliament by failing to declare his use of various properties, including a 37-million-rand Waterfall house in Gauteng. Mashatile has denied all the allegations.

# MK Party deputy president John Hlophe says they will never join the government of national unity. The party has been critical of the coalition government led by the ANC, seeing it as a betrayal of liberation goals and a collaboration with right-wing parties like the DA. It has also described the government of national unity as incompetent and blamed it for stalling important reforms. Hlophe told eNCA that South Africa will never be a one-party state:

# North West police say 565 illegal miners have resurfaced from abandoned mine shafts in Orkney during a Vala Umgodi operation. They resurfaced from a maze of underground tunnels due to hunger and dehydration. Since the inception of operation Vala Umgodi in December last year, more than 13-thousand-691 suspects have been arrested in the seven provinces that are hotspots for illegal mining. Police spokesperson, Sabata Mokgwabone, says they are continuing to monitor old abandoned mine shafts:

# Former US president Donald Trump says he should not have left the White House after he lost the 2020 election that he has not conceded. He made the remarks during one of his final rallies of the election campaign in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. During the speech, Trump revived debunked conspiracy theories from 2020 suggesting that voting machines would be hacked and that efforts to extend polling hours in Pennsylvania amounted to fraud. Americans head to the polls on Tuesday to vote for either Trump or vice president Kamala Harris.

# Motorsport: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen produced a stunning comeback from an original starting position of 17th on the grid to win the rain-affected Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly finished second and third respectively to score a double podium for Alpine. Verstappen’s world championship rival McLaren’s Lando Norris, who started on pole, finished sixth. He has now fallen 62 points adrift of the Dutchman with 86 points available in the final three races. Verstappen says this is an emotional win:

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-51-cents and the euro at 19-rand-8-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-75-cents and Bitcoin trades at 69-thousand-118-dollars-7-cents. Gold sells at two-thousand-741-dollars-42-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 74-dollars-7-cents a barrel.

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