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BULLETIN 27 April 1 pm

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In this bulletin:

# GIWUSA says the 1994 elections dismantled a racist political order
# The EFF files Court papers to demand reset of the 2025 budget
# And, Police commissioner Masemola to meet the investigating team and families of three missing constables

# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says as the country commemorates Freedom Day, the 1994 elections dismantled the racist political order but left the economic power of white capital untouched. Giwusa president Mametlwe Sebei says the negotiated settlement protected property rights, shielded monopolies, and entrenched neoliberalism as a counter-revolution in democratic form. He says land and wealth remain concentrated and 72-percent of private land is still in white hands:

# The EFF says it has filed supplementary court papers in the Western Cape High Court to intervene in the ongoing legal challenge concerning the fiscal framework and revenue proposals adopted by Parliament. The EFF treasurer-general, Omphile Maotwe says this intervention is grounded in the party’s firm commitment to uphold constitutional principles. She says this also to protect Parliament from unlawful political manipulation that threatens to compromise its legislated mandate, and to protect South Africans from unjust taxation through an ill conceived VAT increase:

# National police commissioner, Fannie Masemola and Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection, Shadrack Sibiya will today meet with the team involved in investigating the disappearance of three police officers. Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says Linda Cebekhulu, Keamogetswe Buys and Boipelo Senoge were travelling in a white VW polo sedan from Bloemfontein to their area of deployment in Limpopo when they went missing. She says their last known location was at the Engen garage near the Grasmere toll plaza on the N1 on Wednesday:

# Athletics: In the last individual race at the domestic track and field showpiece in Potchefstroom yesterday, South African Maxime Chaumeton stunned pre-race favourite Adriaan Wildschutt to win the men’s 5-thousand metre title. While Chaumeton has been one the country’s top distance runners in recent years, Olympic 10-thousand metre finalist Wildschutt, based in the United States, has been on a record-breaking spree, setting multiple national marks over the three-thousand, five-thousand and ten-thousand distances.

# And finally, the City of Cape Town’s Community Services and Health Directorate has hosted 12 career expos in the past four months. The expos, facilitated by the city’s Department of Community, Arts and Culture Development, benefited close to five-thousand learners. Mayoral committee member for Community Services and Health, Francine Higham says more libraries are set to host expos during the course of the year:

Stay tuned for more news………….