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BULLETIN 11 December 1 pm

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In this bulletin:

# A national investigative task team will be established to probe a matric exam breach
# ActionSA lodges a formal appeal over IPID’s top-secret Phala Phala report
# And cricket: The Proteas men and India face off in the second T20 in New Chandigarh

# The Director-General of Basic Education will establish a national investigative task team to probe a matric exam breach in Gauteng. The investigation will commence within the next 24-hours. The breach involves 26 learners from seven schools in the Pretoria area. The leaked papers are English, Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Minister of Basic Education Siviwe Gwarube says the mandate of the task team is comprehensive:

# ActionSA has lodged a formal appeal against the Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s refusal to unseal their top-secret investigation report probing the conduct of the Presidential Protection Unit members. This is in relation to the break-in at president Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm in 2023. ActionSA’s Michael Beaumont says the report remains the last frontier in the fight against the abuse of power to shield Ramaphosa in the matter:

# The Independent Police Investigative Directorate says an investigation is underway following the death of a 57-year-old woman at Rosedale Police Station in Upington in the Northern Cape. IPID spokesperson Lizzy Suping says the woman was found unresponsive on a sidewalk last week and later detained in a police cell, where she was declared dead:

Meanwhile, new data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows 33 of the 113 people who died in custody in the 12 months to June this year were indigenous, up from 24 compared to the previous corresponding period. This is the largest number since records began in 1979-80. Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people make up just 3.8-percent of Australia’s population, but account for more than one-third of the country’s prisoners. The main cause of indigenous deaths has been categorised as self-inflicted, followed by natural causes.

# Cricket: South Africa’s men and India face off in the second of five T20s in New Chandigarh today. The hosts won Tuesday’s first encounter in Cuttack by 101 runs after bowling the Proteas out for 74 – their lowest T20 score ever. This followed after South Africa won the Test series 2-0 and India clinched the one-day series 2-1. The third T20 will be played in Dharamsala on Sunday, the fourth one in Lucknow on Wednesday, and the tour will conclude with the final encounter in Ahmedabad next Friday.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 16-rand-92-cents and the euro at 19-rand-78-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-61-cents and Bitcoin trades at 90-thousand-404-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-213-dollars-54-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 61-dollars-21-cents a barrel.

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