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BULLETIN 23 October 15: pm

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In this bulletin:

# The Home Affairs minister confirms the cancellation of Adetshina’s mother’s documents
# The DA demands that Sadtu cancel a mass meeting scheduled during the exam period
# And soccer: Fifa is accused of not paying former players whose clubs haven’t honoured their contracts

# Home Affairs minister Leon Schreiber has confirmed the cancellation of documents belonging to Chidimma Adetshina’s mother. Schreiber told the SABC that Adetshina, now Miss Universe Nigeria, is not guilty of immigration violations, as she was an infant. Adetshina withdrew from the Miss SA pageant amid scrutiny over her citizenship. The minister says the matter is now with the Hawks:

# The DA in Gauteng has demanded that teachers’ union Sadtu cancel a mass meeting scheduled during crucial examination periods. The meeting, set for today at Floridalaan Primary School in Soweto, will force teachers to leave learners unattended while they write final assessments. The DA’s Sergio Isa dos Santos criticised the Gauteng Department of Education for granting permission for the meeting. He warned of potential escalation to the Human Rights Commission:

# Parliament has adopted a unanimous motion calling for the immediate release of Frik Potgieter and Peter Huxham. The South African engineers have been imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea for 621 days. Both men were arrested on dubious drug trafficking charges following the seizure in South Africa of luxury assets belonging to the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea. The family’s spokesperson, Shaun Murphy, expressed gratitude for the support and urged the public to support their cause:

# Soccer: World governing body Fifa is accused of not paying former European players whose clubs haven’t honoured their contracts. Fifa apparently still owes 420 players their final payout, totalling over 66-million-rand and due in September last year. The money was reportedly supposed to come out of Fifa’s Fund for Players, established in 2020. BBC Sport reports many of the affected players are now either unemployed or retired, and need the money desperately.

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-60-cents and the euro at 18-rand-97-cents. One British pound costs 22-rand-84-cents and Bitcoin trades at 66-thousand-478-dollars-10-cents. Gold sells at two-thousand-752-dollars-52-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 75-dollars-55-cents a barrel.

# And finally: Acting president Paul Mashatile has announced a Special Official Funeral Category 2 to honour former Labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana. The funeral will take place in Cape Town on Saturday, with police ceremonial elements. National flags will fly at half-mast from today until the evening of the funeral. The 72-year-old, a former school principal, served in South Africa’s first democratic Parliament and was appointed minister of Labour by Nelson Mandela.

Stay tuned for more news………….