04/06/2024
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04 June 2024
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UMDONI WEATHER FORECAST
(Scottburgh)
Tue🌦️12|21°C☔️65%
Wed☀️14|24°C
Thu☀️14|23°C
Fri☀️14|22°C☔️22%
Sat🌦️13|19°C☔️46%
Sun☀️13|20°C☔️9%
Source: Sam_Weather_Man
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🗞️ AFFLUENTIAL NEWS 📰
1. 🇿🇦 Seventy-one ANC MPs and five from the EFF have lost their plum jobs as legislators after their parties lost parliamentary seats to former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in the watershed general election. While they are entitled to their pensions and loss-of-office gratuities, the former MPs will lose their R1.2m annual income and many other perks.
2. 🕊️ Former South African Medical Association chairperson Dr Kgosi Letlape and his family are inconsolable following the murder of their celebrity chef daughter, Thembekile, known as the "Pastry Princess". Family spokesperson Sello Sethusha said Thembekile was found dead at the home of her boyfriend in Fourways, Johannesburg, on Thursday, 30 May.
3. ⛽️ A stronger average rand-dollar exchange rate in May and lower international product prices are driving down local fuel prices and South Africans can expect good news when official fuel data is adjusted for June. In January, a litre of 95ULP in Gauteng cost R22.49, R3 less than the cost in May. The same fuel at the coast cost R21.77/l in January, R2.93 cheaper than R24.70 now.
4. 🧑🏾⚖️ The Constitutional Court said on Monday it would hear the EFF’s application to set aside parliament’s decision not to refer President Cyril Ramaphosa to an impeachment committee over the Phala Phala scandal. In directions issued on Monday, the apex court said the EFF’s application — brought directly to the Constitutional Court on the basis that the ConCourt has exclusive jurisdiction — was “set down for hearing in due course”.
5. 🗳️ uMkhonto weSizwe Party leader Jacob Zuma warned the IEC that it "didn't know what his party was made of" and that it "would do something that had never happened before": lay charges against the electoral body. Zuma addressed his members outside the Electoral Court sitting at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, claiming without any evidence that his newly-formed party won the 2024 national elections outright.
6. 👩⚖️ Two men implicated in the R2.8bn BHI Ponzi scheme appeared in court. Sona Pillay, 54, was arrested at the airport after attempting to flee overseas. Michael Philip Adam, 55, handed himself over to the Hawks. The suspects are linked to the 2008 Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors.
INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
8. 🇮🇳 The IEC may have had a rough week, but spare a thought for India, where counting of 642 million votes has just begun. The largest election in the world, voting took six weeks to complete.
9. 🇵🇸 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reiterated that there will be no permanent ceasefire unless Hamas is destroyed. Netanyahu’s hard-line is a worrying counter to Joe Biden’s recent three-phase peace plan.
10. 🇺🇸 Former President Donald Trump has called on the US Supreme Court to overturn his guilty verdict in a hush-money trial, claiming the prosecution was politically motivated. He is seeking to annul the conviction before the Republican National Convention, where he is expected to be officially nominated as the party's 2024 presidential candidate.
SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
11. 🤝 Orlando Pirates have announced head coach Jose Riveiro's Spanish assistant Sergio Almenara is leaving the club. Bucs also announced the release of Marou, who has managed just nine appearances in his one-and-a-half years at the club since signing from Coton Sport in Cameroon in January 2023, saying he “is free to join a club of his choice”.
12. ⚽️ Enzo Maresca, the 44-year-old Italian, has left Leicester to become the new Chelsea head coach, replacing Mauricio Pochettino. Maresca was Chelsea's top choice, preferred over Thomas Frank, Kieran McKenna, and Roberto De Zerbi, and has signed a five-year deal with an option for a further 12 months.
13. 🏏 The Proteas dismissed Sri Lanka in New York, starting their T20 World Cup campaign off well. South Africa chased down Sri Lanka’s record-low score of 77 to secure a victory.
14. 🥅 FIFA has ruled that Emilio Nsue, Equatorial Guinea's top scorer at the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations, was never eligible to play for the national team. Nsue has been banned from international football for 6 months, and Equatorial Guinea's World Cup 2026 qualification wins have been overturned due to his ineligibility.
15. 🇫🇷 France forward Kylian Mbappe finally made his “dream” move and joined Real Madrid as a free agent on a five-year contract, the LaLiga club said on Monday, ending a transfer saga that rumbled on for years before the European champions captured their newest “Galactico”. The 25-year-old will receive a signing-on bonus of £85m (R1.7bn)
16. 🥇 English midfielder Jude Bellingham, 20, has been named the world's best footballer in the Top Trumps World Football Stars Top 200 rankings, beating out stars like Erling Haaland and Lionel Messi. The Top Trumps spokesperson cited Bellingham's "extraordinary talent, versatility, and remarkable impact at a young age" as the reasons for his top ranking.
TODAY’S SHOCKING NEWS
😳 Five people have lost their lives in Durban after heavy storms ripped through the city on Monday. The KwaZulu-Natal Government is now assessing damage in the area. Several homes and other structures have been badly damaged. The storm also knocked out power lines, leaving many parts of eThekwini without electricity. Those left homeless are being housed in public facilities. Emergency services remain on high alert as severe weather warnings remain in place. Some roads are still closed, hampering rescue and relief operations. On Sunday, nine people passed away - seven in Gqeberha and two in East London - while others are presumed to have drowned in the floods that hit the province.
Source: AFFLUENTIAL NEWS
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