News 11:00

BULLETIN 26 June 11 am

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In this bulletin:

# A delegation of Afrikaner leaders meet with senior White House officials
# Rise Mzansi demands accountability for the Road Accident Fund scandal
# And athletics: Kenya’s Olympic champion sets her sights on the first women’s sub-four-minute mile

# A senior delegation of Afrikaner leaders held a high-level meeting with senior officials from the White House in Washington. The delegation comprised Freedom Front Plus leader Corné Mulder, Southern African Agri Initiative executive board chairperson Theo de Jager, and National Employers’ Association of South Africa CEO Gerhard Papenfus. The White House officials set out the necessary preconditions for the normalisation of bilateral relations. These include classifying farm attacks as a priority crime and no land expropriation without fair market compensation.

# Rise Mzansi says the abuse of public funds and unethical leadership must come to an end. The party welcomes Parliament’s standing committee on Public Accounts’ inquiry into the 50-billion-rand Road Accident Fund scandal, which includes allegations of maladministration, reckless spending, and financial misconduct. Rise Mzansi’s Makashule Gana urged the committee to use its full powers to hold all individuals and entities involved accountable:

# The Western Cape government has welcomed the agreement between the taxi associations CATA and CODETA to resolve conflicts on the Mfuleni–Somerset and Khayelitsha–Somerset routes. This move is hailed as a vital step toward restoring safety and stability in public transport. Mobility MEC Isaac Sileku praised the parties for prioritising commuters, saying the deal shows the power of dialogue and collective leadership in protecting the province’s transport future.

# The United Nations says violence against children in armed conflict situations reached unprecedented levels last year. The latest report on Children and Armed Conflict verified 41-thousand-370 grave violations against children, of which over 36-thousand were committed in 2024. The Secretary-General’s special representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, says while many of the violations occurred during times of conflict, grave violations can persist even after a conflict ends:

# Athletics: Kenya’s triple Olympic champion in the one-thousand-500-metres, Faith Kipyegon, will try to become the first woman to run the mile in under four minutes in the French capital of Paris tonight. Nike’s “Breaking4” project follows the success of Kipyegon’s compatriot Eliud Kipchoge’s unofficial sub-two hour marathon. The world-renowned manufacturer believes her 85-gram super-spikes will give her a very good chance. Kipyegon, who will be helped by pacers, have to shave off over seven seconds from her own 2023 world record over the distance.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-61-cents and the euro at 20-rand-60-cents. One British pound costs 24-rand-18-cents and Bitcoin trades at 107-thousand-91-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-341-dollars-48-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 66-dollars-73-cents a barrel.

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