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BULLETIN 25 August 8 am

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In this bulletin:

# Julius Malema says Africa must prove to the whole world that it’s not xenophobic
# Minister Steenhuisen welcomes the proclamation of the Agricultural Product Standards Amendment Act
# And swimming: Kris Mihaylov wins gold at the World Aquatics Junior Championship

# EFF leader Julius Malema says fellow Africans aren’t to blame for South Africa’s high unemployment, the real enemy is an untransformed economy in the hands of the white minority and multinationals. He delivered the keynote address at the opening of the Nigerian Bar Association Annual General Conference in Enugu, Nigeria, on Sunday. The association is Africa’s largest professional body of lawyers with over 120-thousand members in Nigeria and abroad. Malema says Africa must prove to the whole world that it’s not xenophobic:

# Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen says the Agricultural Product Standards Amendment Act introduces a new culture, which brings an inclusive and transparent approach to determining inspection fees. President Cyril Ramaphosa proclaimed the Act in the Government Gazette last week, after recommendations by the minister. John Steenhuisen says the proclamation of the amendments to the Act supports and strengthens its core legitimate governmental purposes of ensuring transparency and fairness in trade. He says it also protects consumers against misleading claims of methods of production.

# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has called on acting national Police minister Firoz Cachalia to urgently direct emergency resources to the Anti-Gang Unit, given the ongoing gang violence plaguing the metro. The unit reportedly faces an extreme lack of vehicles, firearms and bulletproof vests. Hill-Lewis says a big part of the solution is to allow the metro’s growing policing resources to fully join SAPS in the fight against gang, gun, and drug crime:

# France’s Foreign Ministry has summoned US ambassador Charles Kushner after he wrote a letter to president Emmanuel Macron alleging France had failed to do enough to stem antisemitic violence. Kushner’s son is married to president Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka. In an open letter in the Wall Street Journal, Kushner called on Macron to urgently enforce hate-crime laws and tone down his criticism of Israel. The ministry says Kushner’s allegations are unacceptable, adding that the rise in antisemitic acts in France since October 7, 2023, is a reality that government deplore.

# Swimming: South Africa’s Kris Mihaylov won gold in the 200-metre butterfly at the World Aquatics Junior Championship in Romania, his first international junior medal. The 18-year-old shattered his previous personal best, taking two seconds off the time he set in the preliminaries to touch in one-minute-56.16-seconds. The silver medal went to David Antal of Hungary, while Turkey’s Tuncer Berk Ertürck claimed the bronze. Italy’s Carlos D’Ambrosio and China’s Peiqi Yang closed out the competition as the best overall male and female athletes, respectively.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-45-cents and the euro at 20-rand-24-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-57-cents and Bitcoin trades at 113-thousand-372-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-365-dollars-45-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 67-dollars-27-cents a barrel.

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