Jacaranda FM Newswatch @ 10H00

0:00The DA announced that it is taking the country's water crisis, especially in Johannesburg, to parliament for debate today. The party is accusing various metro and provincial governments for not pursuing and implementing what it calls obvious solutions. In other news, then, the corruption case against the International Penta-Cost Holiness Church leader Michael Sandlana is expected to resume in the Pretoria Specialized Commercial Crimes Court today. Sandlana was arrested on corruption charges last year alongside Pretoria High Court Judge Borsha Parlane and two others. Sandlana is accused of giving 2.4 million random kickbacks to Judge Parlane in an effort to influence the court case regarding the church's succession battle. Last month, the High Court in Pretoria dismissed Sandlana's bail appeal following his unsuccessful

1:05bail application in December. The court found that the 64-year-old man failed to satisfy the court that the interest of justice permitted his release on bail cliff Shiko, Jacaranda News Watch in Pretoria. The Minister of Finance in Ogonongwana warns that sustained higher oil prices resulting from the Middle East conflict may push up South Africa's inflation and affect economic outlook. The price of bad crude oil jumped with almost 16 per cent this week as shipping flows ground to a halt in the straight-off or moose. Ogonongwana spoke to Bloomberg Television. We will continue to commit to a destabilization process. Of course, we'll have to take into account what the nature of the shocks and we hope that is going to be four weeks as President Trump has said. If it is four weeks, it's going to be fine, but of course, beyond four weeks, we have to pencil down the implication. Then we head to the international front, the U.S. Justice Department, published additional FBI documents describing interviews with a woman who said President Donald Trump sexually

2:09assaulted her after she was introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein. The department says the documents had not been made public under previous congressional mandated file releases because they were mistakenly marked as duplicative. And we end off with this. The South African breast milk reserve is calling on healthy mothers to donate breast milk as demand continues to outpace supply. The founder and executive director, Stasha Jordan, says the organization currently has about 1,500 units of donated milk in storage, but it only covers one month's supply for thousands of premature and critically ill babies who rely on it each year. She says in some cases, premature babies lose their parents, which makes these donations so important. It matters, especially if they leave behind very low birth rate babies that can only drink breast milk because when babies weigh less than 1.8 kilos, it is dangerous to feed them artificially because they are at risk of necrotizing entrocolitis.

3:14That is your latest news, bulletin news at 11. Your father, my aunt, do you see that lost story? It's absolutely lovely what these people are doing. So if someone wants to, so someone now has listened to Checkaround FM and they want to donate, is there a number that we can contact or is there a blog? There is a blog, so we'll make sure that the information is out there so that you can know where to go and how to do this. Oh, amazing. Three minutes past 10, that news made my day.