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BULLETIN 20 September 9 am

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In this bulletin:

# AfriForum vows to fight the EFF’s plan to destroy Afrikaner statues
# City Power rolls out an intelligent distribution system to curb energy losses
# And a judge rejects Trump’s New York Times lawsuit as being improper and impermissible

# AfriForum says it will fight the EFF’s plan to remove and destroy Afrikaner statues and monuments. This comes after EFF chief whip Nontando Nolutshungu tabled a motion in Parliament, calling for the removal of figures like Louis Botha, Paul Kruger, Jan van Riebeeck, and even the Voortrekker Monument. AfriForum’s Ernst van Zyl says the move threatens Afrikaner identity and is part of the EFF’s demolition culture:

# Basic Education minister Siviwe Gwarube, alongside Communications and Digital Technology minister Solly Malatsi, have handed over smart learning tablets at Forest Village Leadership Academy in Cape Town. The devices, donated by Primedia, form part of efforts to boost school connectivity, digital literacy, and coding and robotics education. Gwarube says the initiative, in partnership with the private sector, aims to bridge the digital divide and ensure no learner is left behind:

# City Power has announced the rollout of its Intelligent Distribution System to combat energy theft, reduce technical losses, and modernise operations. Speaking at the Huawei Global Electricity Power Summit in Shanghai, chief operating officer Charles Tlouane said the IDS will cut current energy losses from nearly 30-percent to under ten-percent. He says the phased implementation will see the system detect theft, improve billing accuracy, and strengthen network efficiency:

# A federal judge in Florida has rejected President Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times for not following federal rules for filing civil complaints. Judge Steven D. Merryday said a complaint is not supposed to be “a megaphone for public relations” and called the Trump application “decidedly improper and impermissible.” Merryday said Trump’s legal team can refile in the next four weeks but must keep the complaint to 40 pages or fewer. The lengthy lawsuit accused the Times of being a “virtual mouthpiece” for the Democratic Party. Trump claims 260-billion-rand in damages.

# And sports news:

# Golf:  Louis Albertse claimed his third Sunshine Tour victory dramatically when he beat Pieter Moolman in a playoff to win the Sunbet Challenge hosted by Sun Sibaya at Umhlali Country Club on Friday. It was a predictably tight finish going into the final round, with Albertse and Moolman part of a group of five tied for the lead. Both players closed with rounds of 66, 11 under par, but it was Albertse who took the title with a birdie on the second playoff hole. The victory moved him into eighth place on the Sunshine Tour’s Order of Merit standings.

# And cycling: Africans have been making their presence known in cycling’s top races for more than a decade, but a new milestone will be reached when the 2025 UCI Road World Championships start in Rwanda on Sunday. It will be the first time a World Championships takes place on the continent since the event began in 1921 in Sweden. Around 150 male and female riders currently compete as professional cyclists, with Eritrea, South Africa, Algeria, Mauritius, and Morocco the leading five nations on the UCI’s Africa Tour.

Stay tuned for more news………….