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BULLETIN 13 October 11 am

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In this bulletin:

# The Afrika Mayibuye Movement calls for fairness in the ANC and the IEC’s Constitutional Court case
# Publishers join forces to protect content from artificial intelligence
# And tennis: Zverev secures the year-end world number one ranking

# The Afrika Mayibuye Movement is calling on the Constitutional Court to allow all candidates whose information was captured to be admitted as final candidates ahead of the local government elections. This comes as the court considers a dispute between the ANC and the Electoral Commission. The movement’s spokesperson, Sydney Baloyi, says the electoral process must promote fairness, transparency and equal opportunities for all participating candidates:

# Western Cape Education MEC Jaco Londt has wished the matric Class of 2026 well as they begin their National Senior Certificate examinations. The exams get underway today with the Computer Applications Technology Practical paper. A total of 71-thousand-302 full-time candidates and 13-thousand-834 part-time and repeat candidates are expected to sit in the province. Londt says the Class of 2025 achieved a pass rate of 88.2-percent, improving on the 86.6-percent recorded in 2024:

# The ANC in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, has expelled councillors Thato Mashiane, Thembinkosi Lubisi and Sibusiso Dlamini, and terminated their party membership with immediate effect. Acting regional secretary Moipone Mhlongo says they were found to have engaged in conduct that violated Rule 25 of the ANC’s constitution. She says the violations include supporting or joining political organisations contesting elections against the ANC’s officially endorsed mandate and campaigning for or acting as agents of organisations opposing ANC-endorsed candidates:

Moving abroad:

# More than 40 publishers, including New York Times, Agence France-Presse and The Economist, have joined a coalition to stop artificial intelligence companies from using their content without permission. The group aims to develop standards and tools to track how A-I systems use news reports and help publishers negotiate payment agreements. The coalition now has more than 80 members in over 20 countries, including the BBC and Financial Times. Publishers are concerned that A-I-generated answers are also reducing traffic to their websites, threatening advertising revenue.

# Tennis: Germany’s Alexander Zverev will finish the year as the world’s top-ranked men’s player for the first time in his career. The 29-year-old secured the ranking after Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz suffered a shock defeat at the Shanghai Masters yesterday. Zverev has won both the French Open and US Open this year, claiming his first two Grand Slam titles. His achievement comes after current number one, Jannik Sinner of Italy, withdrew from competition for the rest of the season with a knee injury.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 16-rand-49-cents and the euro at 18-rand-44-cents. One British pound costs 21-rand-82-cents and Bitcoin trades at 83-thousand-589-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-188-dollars-15-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 107-dollars-89-cents a barrel.

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