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BULLETIN 10 July 2 pm

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In this bulletin:

# The DA slaps the minister of Police with criminal charges
# Pakistani police arrest 149 people in a raid on a scam call centre
# And rugby: The All Blacks coach makes two enforced changes for the second Test against France

# The DA has laid criminal charges against Police minister Senzo Mchunu at the Cape Town Central police station. The party accuses Mchunu of lying to Parliament about his association with businessman Brown Mogotsi linked to criminal networks, a move they say amounts to obstructing the course of justice. The DA’s Dianne Kohler Barnard insists no one, including cabinet ministers, is above the law:

# The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has revealed that it imposed fines totalling nearly 120-million-rand in the past financial year. This is a decline from the previous year, attributed to the absence of a large-scale fraud case like Steinhoff. The FSCA highlighted ongoing efforts to strengthen market integrity and protect consumers within South Africa’s financial sector. Commissioner Unathi Kamlana says the authority seeks to improve on its processes:

# Pakistani police arrested 149 people, including 71 foreigners, in a raid on a scam call centre. Law enforcement authorities say they were acting on a tip-off about the network, operating in the city of Faisalabad. They says the raid was at the residence of the former head of the city’s power grid, Tasheen Awan. All those arrested are in custody, including 78 Pakistanis and 48 Chinese, as well as citizens from Nigeria, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and Myanmar.

# Rugby: New Zealand coach Scott Robertson has made two enforced changes to his starting-15 for the second Test against France in Wellington on Saturday. Patrick Tuipulotu replaces captain Scott Barrett, who has been ruled out with a calf tear, and Caleb Clarke comes in for Sevu Reece, who suffered a concussion in the first Test, which the All Blacks won 31-27. Vice-captain Ardie Savea will lead the team. Robertson says he has full respect for French coach Fabien Galthié:

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-73-cents and the euro at 20-rand-79-cents. One British pound costs 24-rand-12-cents and Bitcoin trades at 111-thousand-51-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-324-dollars-57-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 69-dollars-38-cents a barrel.

# And finally: The South African National AIDS Council and UNAIDS are launching the Global AIDS update at the Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Johannesburg today. The report, titled AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, warns that donor funding cuts, especially from the US, threaten decades of progress. It highlights that nearly 40-million people are living with HIV globally, with 4.4-million children protected since 2000. UNAIDS warns of six-million new infections and four-million deaths by 2029 if urgent action isn’t taken.

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