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Jacaranda FM Newswatch @ 08H01

Jacaranda FM Newswatch (Latest Bulletins)

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Jacaranda FM Newswatch (Latest Bulletins)Jacaranda FM Newswatch @ 08H01. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

0:00China's work up to 25, Pretoria and Dresdenberg are high of 26 degrees. Traffic is crawling in Pretoria on the end for waistband towards the N1 highway. In your sport as a rugby CEO, Rihanna Wurberalls, there's shoots down any hopes of South Africa hosting a rugby world cup and Dex remained the only and beaten team after three rounds of the varsity cup. We start in Ormondi in the south of Johannesburg. In the cover, I want to continue this morning again since it was called the off-last night. There's a police and we don't run as big images as this is a rescue technician. And other street stakeholders who are doing their inspections like the engineers and so on. Johannesburg emergency services spokesperson Robert Molozzi says that is where a building under construction collapsed yesterday afternoon, three people remain missing. Six were declared dead while six others were rushed to hospital. Johannesburg City Manager Floyd Brink visited the scene last night where he said according to an internal investigation, there were no approved plans for the construction.

1:04At this point, we do have our engineers on site as well as our building control officials. And we are now busy looking to look at the structural integrity of this particular building. So we are trying our best for our teams to work around the clock. Brink added that they are also tracking down the contractor, who's since gone missing. Two parliament where Deputy National Police Commissioner Taberla Muskele is expected to appear before the ad hoc committee today as part of the investigation into crime and interference in the criminal justice system. Appearance is linked to the director that she received on the 31st of December 2024 about the dismantlement of the political killings task team. The son of the former late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe is expected to return to the Alexandra matches of school today to apply for bail. Bellamine Mugabe and his co-ocuse Tobias Potongi are facing charges of attempted murder after a gardener was shot and injured at a house in Hyde Park last month.

2:07Cliff Sheaker has more. The state says they accused face attempted murder under the doctrine of common peoples. They are also facing charges of defeating the ends of justice in a position of a fire arm. However, despite an intense search of the property, the fire arm used in the shooting has not yet been recovered. Last week, the case was postponed to allow the Department of Home Affairs to verify their status of their accused in South Africa as they are both Zimbabwean citizens. Cliff Sheaker, Jagaranda News Watch, at the Alexandra magistrate's court. In the Middle East, Iran confirmed this morning that it targeted a U.S. airbase in Bahrain with a large-scale drone and missile attack. Tehran's military-launched solvers across the Gulf region in retaliation for U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that began on Saturday. Explosions were also reported this morning in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh's diplomatic quarter, where the U.S. embassy said to have been hit, sparking a small fire.

3:08Meanwhile, the world is gossiping about a prominent red rash on U.S. President Donald Trump's neck. This was noted at the White House yesterday, and while Trump is addressing journalists about the U.S. Israeli attacks on Iran, the White House doctor says the 79-year-old Trump is undergoing a preventative scheme treatment, and the readiness is expected to last for a few weeks. The specific reason for the treatment has not yet been revealed. Say, people, I mean, who's that one person that worried about a red rash? All the world's media. No, it's just insane. I think sometimes we use the word people. Does that person who wanted about the rash on his neck now feel better while he's bombing Iran? I don't know. I don't know. Do you remember how much people were saying people? No, you just said about the health of Joe Biden, the predecessor. It just kept on going. Dude, I don't think the red rash on his neck is going to be the reason for anything that happened next, but Joe Biden was very old. Yeah, but then people spoke constantly.

4:08No, most of his words and oh, he did this. Oh, he fell down. How many fell on the plane on the stairs? Yes. Real reason for concern. You're right. It made headlines. Yeah, no, that's real reason for concern. But Donald Trump also fell on the stairs going up to the if-for-sweden. Did he? Yes. Well, it was the last year or the year before. Last year? Last year? Yeah. 20 to 25. You're saying it's justified. I know. I just say it happens all the time. I'm saying people are looking out for our best interests. They are checking everything in the room. They're looking at the person who's talking, seeing if he's okay. You will hear everything that's off. Then I'm the only person in the world is concerned about the other things happening with that man right now. But that's okay. I hope people feel better. I'll see you.

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