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BULLETIN 10 September 4 pm

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In this bulletin:

# South Africa plans to host a conference on the Middle East conflict
# The GOOD party welcomes the agreement for a debate on Western Cape teacher cuts
# And, tennis: The Davis Cup resumes this week

# South Africa plans to host a conference on the Middle East conflict. The event seeks to bring together scholars and experts for discussions aimed at finding solutions to resolve the ongoing conflict. The conference will feature figures such as former International Criminal Court president Chile Eboe-Osuji and former Palestinian prime minister Salaam Fayyad. The focus will be on the freedom, dignity, and future of Palestinians and Israelis after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded guarantees against Hamas’s use of Gaza’s border area for a ceasefire.

# The GOOD party in the Western Cape says the provincial legislature’s speaker has agreed to its urgent request to schedule a debate on the Education Department’s decision to cut two-thousand-407 teacher posts. The party’s Brett Herron says the debate has been scheduled to take place at the next sitting on Thursday as a matter of public importance:

# Union federation Saftu has condemned the high earnings of banking executives. Spokesperson Mogoshadi Maserumule says recent figures have shown bank executives at the country’s four major banks earn millions in executive pay. She says in the 2023 financial year, Investec CEO Fani Titi earned 175-million-rand per year, or 475-thousand-452-rand a day, which is an average worker’s annual wage:

# The former boyfriend of Ugandan Olympic athlete, Rebecca Cheptegei, who died after he set her on fire, has himself died in hospital from burns sustained in the attack. Dickson Ndiema ambushed the marathon runner as she returned home from church before dousing her with petrol and setting her ablaze. The two had been in conflict over a small piece of land in north-west Kenya, where Cheptegei lived and trained. She died last Thursday from 80-percent burn wounds she sustained during the attack.

# Tennis: Davis Cup action resumes this week, with big names such as Carlos Alcaraz of Spain, Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Jack Draper of Britain playing for their countries in the men’s team competition. Jannik Sinner won’t compete for Italy after winning the US Open. The group stage is played in Bologna in Italy, Valencia in Spain, Zhuhai in China and Manchester in England. The top two countries in each of the four groups will qualify for November’s quarter-finals.

# And, the financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-89-cents and the euro at 19-rand-74-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-42-cents and Bitcoin trades at 57-thousand-316-dollars-25-cent. Gold sells at two-thousand-506-dollars-34-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 70-dollars-84-cents a barrel.

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