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BULLETIN 23 May 1 pm

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In this bulletin:

# The Police minister reports murder rates are down in all provinces except the Northern Cape
# ActionSA says gang violence ravages South African communities
# And soccer: Luka Modric will leave Real Madrid after the Club World Cup

# Police minister Senzo Mchunu says murder rates have decreased in eight of the nine provinces, with six-thousand-467 people killed between January and March – a reduction of 3.1-percent compared to the same period last year. Speaking during the release of the latest crime statistics in Pretoria, Mchunu said the Northern Cape was the only province to record an increase in murders, despite contributing just two percent to the national figure:

Meanwhile, ActionSA says it once again raises the alarm over the surge in gang violence tearing through communities across South Africa, where ruthless gangs turn neighborhoods into warzones. ActionSA’s spokesperson, Matthew George, says gang violence is littering the streets of the Cape Flats in the Western Cape, Eldorado Park and Westbury in Gauteng, and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape with bullet casings, and forcing innocent families to live in constant fear:

# Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa is recalling Ford Rangers that were made available for sale in 2024. This follows a recall of six car brands by their manufacturers last week. The National Consumer Commission’s head of Complaints and Investigations, Prudence Moilwa, says the recall by Ford is due to the front lower control arm that may have been fitted on the left-hand side of the vehicle instead of the correct front lower control arm:

# Soccer: Real Madrid’s 39-year-old Croatian midfielder, Luka Modric, announced that he would leave the Spanish giants after the Club World Cup. He has played nearly 600 games for Real Madrid since joining from Tottenham in 2012, winning six Champions League and four La Liga titles among other trophies. Modric won the Ballon d’Or in 2018 for his performances with Real and also his country, as Croatia finished as runners-up at the World Cup in Russia.

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-91-cents and the euro at 20-rand-33-cents. One British pound costs 24-rand-17-cents and Bitcoin trades at 110-thousand-82-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-333-dollars-16-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 63-dollars-61-cents a barrel.

# And finally: Prince William, in collaboration with United for Wildlife, has launched a new, groundbreaking documentary series titled Guardians. The six-part docuseries offers a rare insight into the dangerous work of wildlife rangers operating on the front lines of conservation worldwide. The series follows stories from rangers working in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, the Central African Republic, the Indian Himalayas, Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, Sri Lanka, and the Caru indigenous land in Brazil. Around one-thousand-400 rangers have died in the past decade.

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