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BULLETIN 15 November 8 am

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In this bulletin:

# The appropriations committee says Parliament cannot be a rubber stamp for the executive
# The GOOD Party wants a probe into the financial mismanagement in soccer
# And Donald Trump picks a vaccine sceptic and his own attorney to serve in his administration

# Parliament’s standing committee on Appropriations has expressed concern about how the transfer of funds are approved by the National Treasury for government departments. The committee engaged with the Financial and Fiscal Commission and the Parliamentary Budget Office yesterday. Committee chairperson, Mmusi Maimane, told the SABC that Parliament cannot be a rubber stamp for the executive on the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement:

# The GOOD Party is calling for a full investigation into the financial mismanagement at the South African Football Association. This comes after SAFA president Danny Jordaan and two co-accused were arrested and charged with fraud and theft to the tune of 1.3-million-rand earlier this week. The trio are out on 20-thousand-rand bail each. GOOD’s, Lulama Benge, says for far too long the national soccer heroes have struggled financially, while executives have been accused of living the high life:

# ActionSA Gauteng says it has committed itself to assisting school vendors adversely impacted by Education MEC Matome Chiloane’s call to suspend food sales in and around school premises. The province has recorded over 400 foodborne illness cases with 23 deaths. ActionSA says it believes that foodborne illnesses and deaths have reached calamitous proportions. However, it adds that this cannot be resolved by protecting undocumented foreign nationals masquerading as businesspeople at the expense of law-abiding South African citizens.

# US president-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Junior to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in his second White House administration. The vaccine-sceptic had run as an independent in the 2024 presidential campaign before backing Trump. The president-elect has also named Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general. Blanche represented Trump at his criminal trial in New York earlier this year, in which he was convicted of falsifying business records. Former Georgia Congressman Doug Collins has been chosen to lead the Department of Veteran Affairs.

# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner is through to the semifinals of the ATP Finals in Turin, Italy. Playing on home soil, the 23-year-old defeated Daniil Medvedev, 6-3, 6-4, to top the Ilie Nastase group and in the process dump the Russian out of the season-ending tournament. Meanwhile, American Taylor Fritz is also through to the semifinals after seeing off Australia’s Alex de Minaur 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Fritz says it was a tough physical match:

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 18-rand-24-cents and the euro at 19-rand-24-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-13-cents and Bitcoin trades at 88-thousand-287-dollars-2-cents. Gold sells at two-thousand-568-dollars-81-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 72-dollars-13-cents a barrel.

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