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BULLETIN 28 August 4 pm

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In this bulletin:

# A Brakpan policeman kills his wife and injures his family before taking his own life
# Golf: A young Australian returns to the professional game after losing sight in his one eye
# And South Africa’s first robotic donor kidney surgery is performed at Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital

# The Independent Police Investigative Directorate probes an incident in Brakpan, Gauteng, where a policeman allegedly killed his wife and injured her mother, two children and a domestic worker before taking his own life. The incident occurred following a domestic dispute. A protection order was issued against the policeman earlier. IPID spokesperson Lizzy Suping says he fled the scene and was later tracked to Secunda in Mpumalanga, where he reportedly shot himself:

# A former Johannesburg kindergarten teacher was found guilty of raping and killing her boyfriend’s four-year-old daughter. The High Court in the city found Amber Lee Hughes sexually assaulted Nada-Jane Challita before drowning her in the bathtub of her father Elie’s home in Glenvista in January 2023. Hughes had been looking after the toddler while her father was out of town after they had an argument. Hughes changed her plea on the murder charge to guilty recently, but denied raping Nada-Jane.

# The Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa will spotlight the Luxembourg Rail Protocol at the 2025 Southern African Railways Association Rail Conference. The protocol provides a harmonised legal framework for railway financing, reducing lender risk and lowering financing costs. ECIC Head of Marketing Ismail Carr says the corporation will offer up to a 20-percent risk premium discount for compliant rolling stock financing, supporting local manufacturers and boosting African rail trade.

# Golf: Young Australian Jeffrey Guan returned to the professional game almost a year after losing the sight in his left eye in a freak accident. A ball struck the 21-year-old in the eye during a tournament in Sydney – only a week after making his US PGA Tour debut. The two-time Australian junior amateur champion then vowed to return, and made good of that promise when he teed off in the Northern Territory PGA Championship in Palmerston this morning, scoring 74. Guan says it was a great feeling.

# The financial indicators: The dollar trades at 17-rand-63-cents and the euro at 20-rand-59-cents. One British pound costs 23-rand-83-cents and Bitcoin trades at 112-thousand-903-dollars. Gold sells at three-thousand-407-dollars-38-cents a fine ounce and Brent crude oil is quoted at 67-dollars-23-cents a barrel.

# And finally: Western Cape Department of Health urologist, Danelo du Plessis, successfully performed South Africa’s first robotic donor nephrectomy at Cape Town’s Tygerberg Hospital. Du Plessis used the Da Vinci Xi Robotic system to remove a healthy kidney from a 45-year-old mother for her 24-year-old daughter. This is a major advancement in patient care and surgical innovation. Du Plessis confirmed the minimally invasive surgery reduced recovery time, with the donor discharged the next day:

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