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BULLETIN 8 June 1 pm

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In this bulletin:

# The GOOD Party and RISE Mzansi announce Brett Herron as their joint mayoral candidate for Cape Town
# The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the DRC has increased to 515
# And tennis: Cobolli cracks the top-ten for the first time after reaching Roland Garros’ final

# The GOOD Party and RISE Mzansi have announced Brett Herron as their joint mayoral candidate for Cape Town ahead of November’s local government elections. This will be his second bid for the metro’s top office following his previous run in 2021. The two parties, along with Build One South Africa, have joined hands under the banner of Unite for Change ahead of the elections. Herron has criticised the metro’s state:

# The managing director of the Reputation 1st Group, Tshepo Matseba, welcomes president Cyril Ramaphosa’s measures to tackle undocumented immigration, describing the address as necessary and long overdue. Speaking to SABC News, Matseba says Ramaphosa acknowledged concerns raised by many South Africans regarding border management and immigration enforcement. He notes the proposed interventions could help restore public confidence if implemented effectively:

# The Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety says the N1 South near the Baobab toll plaza in the Hartley area is currently closed following a bus accident. The department’s spokesperson, Mashudu Mabata, says preliminary reports indicate the driver lost control and the vehicle overturned. She says unconfirmed injuries have been reported, but no fatalities have been confirmed at this stage:

Moving abroad:

# The Democratic ​Republic of ‌Congo has announced ​the number of ⁠confirmed ​Ebola cases ​had increased to 515 ​after ​27 new samples ‌tested ⁠positive in the previous 24 ​hours. Government data shows the confirmed cases include ​91 ​deaths. The outbreak is concentrated in the eastern provinces of Ituri, North Kivu, and South Kivu. Cases have spilled over into neighbouring Uganda, which has recorded 19 confirmed cases and two deaths. Cases have also been detected hundreds of kilometres away in the DRC’s densely populated capital of Kinshasa.

# Tennis: Italian Flavio Cobolli has cracked the men’s top ten for the first time after reaching the French Open final. He improved four places to tenth in the world rankings after losing to third-ranked Alexander Zverev of Germany at Roland Garros yesterday. Jannik Sinner of Italy and Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz remain on top. Former number one, Novak Djokovic of Serbia, slumped three places to seventh. Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime is fourth, American Ben Shelton fifth, Australian Alex de Minaur sixth, Russian Daniil Medvedev eighth, and American Taylor Fritz ninth.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 16-rand-58-cents and the euro at 19-rand-7-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-8-cents and Bitcoin trades at 63-thousand-229-dollars. Gold sells at four-thousand-273-dollars-96-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 96-dollars-19-cents a barrel.

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