News 12:00

BULLETIN 9 July 12 pm

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In this bulletin:

# Hundreds of stranded Malawians wait for buses home
# Seven people are shot dead in two separate incidents on the Cape Flats
# And the UK Labour Party’s leadership race has officially opened

# More than 500 Malawian nationals have been sleeping at the Malawian high commission in Pretoria since Monday while waiting for buses to return home. Many have been unable to secure seats because of limited transport, leaving families, children, and pregnant women stranded. The Institute for Islamic Services’ Yusuf Mustafa says volunteers could feed only 300 of the people. The DA’s Shimmy Mashamaite says Malawians from several provinces have travelled to the embassy seeking refuge.

Meanwhile, Forum for South Africa says the country cannot afford further delays in enforcing its immigration laws and securing its borders. Home Affairs have raised concerns regarding budget constraints and the shortage of personnel to effectively deal with illegal immigration. FOSA leader, Tebogo Mashilompane, says they are prepared to provide the department with five-thousand or more disciplined South Africans who are willing to assist in supporting immigration enforcement:

# Cape Town police are investigating two mass shootings that left seven dead and five injured in Tafelsig, Mitchells Plain, and Philippi East last night. Spokesperson Andrè Traut says in the first incident in Tafelsig, five men were shot outside a local tuck shop, with three victims, aged 18, 19 and 51, declared dead on the scene. He says in Philippi East, seven people were shot, resulting in four victims, aged between 17 and 20 years, succumbing to their injuries:

Moving abroad:

# The UK’s Labour Party has today officially opened nominations for its next leader following Keir Starmer’s recent resignation. Any Labour member of Parliament interested in the position needs to secure the backing of 20-percent of their colleagues, which is currently 81 MPs. They also need support from at least three organisations affiliated with the party. Andy Burnham is expected to be the only candidate, which means he could be declared the new leader next Friday, and would then become prime minister on Monday the 20th. Nominations close on Wednesday.

# Tennis: South Africa’s four-time Grand Slam champion, Kgothatso Montjane, and her British partner Lucy Shuker are through to the ladies’ wheelchair doubles semifinals at Wimbledon. They defeated France’s Ksenia Chasteau and the Netherlands’ Jiske Griffioen. Montjane won Wimbledon’s wheelchair doubles title with her Japanese partner, Yui Kamiji, in 2024, while Shuker has appeared in five doubles finals. The duo will face the number one seeds, Japan’s Yui Kamiji and China’s Zhenzhen Zhu, for a place in the final.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 16-rand-34-cents and the euro at 18-rand-69-cents. One British pound costs 21-rand-93-cents and Bitcoin trades at 62-thousand-977-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-115-dollars-23-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 76-dollars-67-cents a barrel.

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