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BULLETIN 16 July 2 pm

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In this bulletin:

# The MK Party demands that president Cyril Ramaphosa resigns by Mandela Day
# The US deports five violent criminals to Eswatini
# And cricket: Forty-three-year-old Jimmy Anderson will play for Manchester Originals in The Hundred

# The MK Party has issued an ultimatum to president Cyril Ramaphosa, demanding that he resign by Mandela Day on Friday. In a letter of demand, the party says the resignation would honour the late former president Nelson Mandela. It has threatened legal action, a no-confidence vote, and nationwide protests. MK spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela accuses the government of national unity of undermining the will of the electorate and reinstating the ANC through backdoor deals.

# The Referendum Party says it will formally submit the Constitution Twenty-Second Amendment Bill to Parliament’s portfolio committee on Justice and Constitutional Development. The bill asserts that race-based policy is fundamentally incompatible with a constitutional order founded on non-racialism. Party leader Phil Craig says if passed, all race-based policy and legislation will become unlawful, adding this is long overdue:

# International Relations and Cooperation director-general, Zane Dangor, says the crime of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and the crime of apartheid are not complex; they are unlawful. He addressed the Hague Group’s emergency conference to halt the genocide in Gaza, taking place in Colombia. Dangor says enabling Israel to ignore decisions of the courts and the United Nations with no consequence is negatively impacting the integrity of international law:

# The United States deported five violent criminals from Asian and Caribbean countries to Eswatini. The deported migrants are nationals of Cuba, Jamaica, Laos, Vietnam and Yemen. The Department of Homeland Security wrote on X that these criminal illegal aliens are so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back. They were convicted of violent crimes such as child rape and murder. US president Donald Trump’s administration has defended third-country deportations as necessary since their home nations sometimes refuse to accept them.

# Cricket: Legendary English pace bowler Jimmy Anderson will play for Manchester Originals in this year’s The Hundred, marking his first franchise tournament after a professional career spanning 25-years. Anderson will be 43 when the tournament begins next month. He retired as England’s all-time leading wicket-taker last year after claiming 704 Test scalps and 269 in one-day internationals. His former teammate, Andrew Flintoff’s teenage son, Rocky, will play for Northern Superchargers where his father is head coach.

# And the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-92-cents and the euro at 20-rand-81-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-99-cents and Bitcoin trades at 119-thousand-290-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-338-dollars-1-cent a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 67-dollars-89-cents a barrel.

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