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BULLETIN 30 October 1 pm

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In this bulletin:

# An AbaThembu chief is murdered and five matric learners are raped in the Eastern Cape
# Soccer: Arsene Wenger heads Fifa’s taskforce probing the packed calendar
# And an unknown waltz by Chopin is found in a library vault after nearly 200 years

# Eastern Cape police are searching for suspects involved in the fatal shooting of AbaThembu chief iNkosi Nogcinile Mtirara at Mqhekezweni Great Place in Mthatha. The motive for the shooting is still unknown. In another incident, five matric learners were reportedly raped in Bityi, Mthatha. Police spokesperson Siphokazi Mawisa says they had been staying in a rented house while preparing for their exams when they were assaulted:

# The City of Tshwane says it will restrict some reservoirs to stabilise those that are struggling to keep up with demand. Rand Water is currently pumping about 800-million litres a day to Tshwane when it’s supposed to be pumping 662- million litres per day. The metro’s spokesperson, Selby Bokaba, says there will be no inflow of water to the throttled reservoirs:

# Germany and the European Union strongly condemned Iran’s execution of a 69-year-old German-Iranian dissident after years behind bars, and warned they were considering retaliatory measures. Chancellor Olaf Scholz called Jamshid Sharmahd’s execution a scandal and Foreign minister Annalena Baerbock warned what she called Iran’s inhumane regime of serious consequences. Iran’s Foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, responded on X that a German passport does not provide impunity to anyone, let alone a terrorist criminal. Sharmahd was a software engineer who had worked and written for an Iranian opposition group’s website.

# Soccer: Arsenal’s former manager, Arsene Wenger, will lead a taskforce compiled by world governing body Fifa to probe the impact of the packed calendar on players’ welfare. This follows after top European leagues and players’ union Fifpro filed a legal complaint with the European Commission, accusing Fifa of abuse of its dominance over the calendar. The union was included in the taskforce. Fifa says it must examine how suitable and effective safeguards for players can be implemented.

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-55-cents and the euro at 19-rand-3-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-83-cents and Bitcoin trades at 72-thousand-385-dollars-86-cents. Gold sells at two-thousand-781-dollars-61-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 71-dollars-57-cents a barrel.

# And finally: An unknown waltz by Chopin, written nearly 200 years ago, has been discovered in the vault of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. The New York Times reports the score, on a card bearing Frédéric Chopin’s hand-written name, was found by a curator. Newly discovered works by Chopin, who died in 1849 at age 39, are rare. The Polish composer’s heart, pickled in a jar of alcohol, is encased in a church in Warsaw. The museum believes the music is from between 1830 and 1835.

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